I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. — Rene Descartes Amazed Copy Share Image
“...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.” — René Descartes Consider Copy Share Image
But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be. — Rene Descartes Possibly Copy Share Image
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe. — Rene Descartes Funny Copy Share Image
If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what… — Rene Descartes Ifs Copy Share Image
“("I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to… — René Descartes Existence Copy Share Image
“...all that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment” — René Descartes Decision making Copy Share Image
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. — Rene Descartes Demolition Copy Share Image
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of… — Rene Descartes Acquisition Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. — Rene Descartes Offended Copy Share Image
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations — Rene Descartes Mind Copy Share Image
“I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions is far more custom and example than any certain knowledge.” — René Descartes Certain knowledge Copy Share Image
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as… — Rene Descartes Certainty Copy Share Image
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those… — Rene Descartes Discovery Copy Share Image
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an… — René Descartes Ignorance Copy Share Image
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive… — Rene Descartes All things Copy Share Image
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those… — Rene Descartes Common sense Copy Share Image
In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for… — Rene Descartes Finite Copy Share Image
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine… — Rene Descartes Believe Copy Share Image
“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say,… — René Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because… — Rene Descartes Comparison Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Accepting Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of… — René Descartes Success Copy Share Image
“Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to suspect that it is merely a dream, and wants to go… — René Descartes Dream Copy Share Image
“But even if all agreed together, it would not be enough to have their teachings. For we shall never be mathematicians, say,… — René Descartes Education Copy Share Image
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to… — Rene Descartes Admire Copy Share Image
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds,… — René Descartes Psychology Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate. — Rene Descartes Contemplate Copy Share Image
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. — Rene Descartes Centuries Copy Share Image
