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 Deceived Copy Share Image
It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing. — Rene Descartes Absolutely nothing Copy Share Image
“...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.” — René Descartes Advice 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
“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself… — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend.… — Rene Descartes Action 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
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
I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were… — Rene Descartes Able Copy Share Image
The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured,… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
“The reason for this is that every person permits himself the liberty of making guesses in the matter of an obscure subject… — René Descartes Freedom Copy Share Image
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. — Rene Descartes Enough Copy Share Image
“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and… — René Descartes Error 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
The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis. — Rene Descartes Analysis 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
“Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)” — Rene Descartes Doubt 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
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
“But doubtless I did exist, if I persuaded myself of something. But there is some deceiver or other who is supremely powerful… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be… — René Descartes Religion Copy Share Image
“The brutes, which have only their bodies to conserve, are continually occupied in seeking sources of nourishment; but men, of whom the… — René Descartes Success Copy Share Image
