Its not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well :) — Rene Descartes Good 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
It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. — Rene Descartes Dream Copy Share Image
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves. — Rene Descartes Discovered Copy Share Image
There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it. — Rene Descartes Funny Copy Share Image
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes Causes 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
“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
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
“When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another… — René Descartes Better things Copy Share Image
“Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone,… — René Descartes Contemplation Copy Share Image
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself… — Rene Descartes Discovery Copy Share Image
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel… — Rene Descartes Aberration Copy Share Image
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side,… — Rene Descartes Alternatives Copy Share Image
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it,… — Rene Descartes Desire Copy Share Image
“But after I had imployed some years in thus studying the Book of the World, and endeavouring to get experience, I took… — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
“But doubtless I did exist, if I persuaded myself of something. But there is some deceiver or other who is supremely powerful… — René Descartes Exist 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
The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout… — Rene Descartes Age Copy Share Image
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in… — Rene Descartes Apprehension Copy Share Image
“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it,… — René Descartes Different ways Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Believe Copy Share Image
“[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others,… — René Descartes Different ways 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
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more… — Rene Descartes Abhorrence Copy Share Image
“For ’tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well.” — René Descartes Education Copy Share Image
Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training… — Rene Descartes Absolutes Copy Share Image
In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than… — Rene Descartes Difficult Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
“that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.” — René Descartes Conduct Copy Share Image
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes Funny Copy Share Image
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes Deceive Copy Share Image
The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we… — Rene Descartes Arrangements Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes Books Copy Share Image
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. — Rene Descartes Capable Copy Share Image
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as… — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
It is only intelligence that is divided equally between people because everybody thinks he/she is enough wise — René Descartes Ability Copy Share Image
Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that… — Rene Descartes Believe Copy Share Image
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