Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall… — Rene Descartes Certain Copy Share Image
The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. — Rene Descartes Affection Copy Share Image
“De wortel is metafysica, de stam is fysica en de takken die daaruit voorkomen, zijn alle andere wetenschappen.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“For the mind depends so much on the temperament and disposition of the bodily organs that, if it is possible to find… — René Descartes Descartes Copy Share Image
Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by… — Rene Descartes Changed Copy Share Image
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else… — Rene Descartes Attributes Copy Share Image
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is… — Rene Descartes Deny Copy Share Image
Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them. — Rene Descartes Adversity Copy Share Image
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books. — Rene Descartes Bad habit 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
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Book Copy Share Image
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. — Rene Descartes Available Copy Share Image
“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — René Descartes Dreams 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
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and… — Rene Descartes Accepted Copy Share Image
On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. — Rene Descartes Failure Copy Share Image
“I fear being shaken out of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may be followed by hard labour when… — René Descartes Fear Copy Share Image
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — Rene Descartes Blow Copy Share Image
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know. — Rene Descartes Knowledge Copy Share Image
