I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must… — Rene Descartes Desire Copy Share Image
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. — Rene Descartes Available Copy Share Image
“For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.” — René Descartes Imperfection Copy Share Image
“De wortel is metafysica, de stam is fysica en de takken die daaruit voorkomen, zijn alle andere wetenschappen.” — René Descartes Hart Copy Share Image
“But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and… — René Descartes Thinks Copy Share Image
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Filled 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
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
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
“I fear being shaken out of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may be followed by hard labour when… — René Descartes Afraid Copy Share Image
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that… — Rene Descartes Common Copy Share Image
For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when… — Rene Descartes Awake 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
I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my… — Rene Descartes Certainty 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
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with… — Rene Descartes Commodity Copy Share Image
“And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing… — René Descartes Complete 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
I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my… — Rene Descartes Certitude 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
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason… — Rene Descartes Blind Copy Share Image
“For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced I had advanced no farther in all… — René Descartes Education Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of… — René Descartes Desires Copy Share Image
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we… — Rene Descartes Certainty 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
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than… — Rene Descartes Be grateful Copy Share Image
Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the… — Rene Descartes Accepted Copy Share Image
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude,… — Rene Descartes Argument Copy Share Image
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that… — Rene Descartes Capacity Copy Share Image
“They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it,… — René Descartes Eternity Copy Share Image
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control… — Rene Descartes Anger Copy Share Image
