“For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.” — René Descartes Knowledge 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
“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather,… — René Descartes Books Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes Philosopher Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Ancient Copy Share Image
“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these… — René Descartes Human body Copy Share Image
Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels… — Rene Descartes Desire 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
And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are… — Rene Descartes Carried away 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
The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts. — Rene Descartes Power Copy Share Image
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases,… — Rene Descartes Amazement 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 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… — Rene Descartes Believe Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of… — Rene Descartes Common Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes Agency Copy Share Image
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable — Rene Descartes Adventure Copy Share Image
Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him… — Rene Descartes Clearness Copy Share Image
There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it. — Rene Descartes Discovery Copy Share Image
