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
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
How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses? — Rene Descartes Exists Copy Share Image
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore… — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
“there is often not so much perfection in works composed of many pieces and made by the hands of various master craftsmen… — René Descartes Excellence Copy Share Image
“I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has… — René Descartes Philosophers 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
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Behaviour Copy Share Image
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How… — Rene Descartes Certain 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
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
I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
“For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign… — René Descartes Artist 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
“[...] 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
“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
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs… — René Descartes Human 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
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. — Rene Descartes Adversity Copy Share Image
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more… — Rene Descartes Arise Copy Share Image
“...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its… — René Descartes Cause 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
Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am) — Rene Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best. — Rene Descartes Argument Copy Share Image
“Clearly divine grace and natural knowledge never diminish liberty, but rather increase and strengthen it.” — René Descartes Divine grace Copy Share Image
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of… — René Descartes Doubt Copy Share Image
“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written… — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes Atheism Copy Share Image
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. — Rene Descartes Encouragement Copy Share Image
“The second, to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for… — René Descartes Adversity 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
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad… — Rene Descartes Bad behavior Copy Share Image
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes Follow Copy Share Image
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes Common sense Copy Share Image
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