In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe. — Rene Descartes Funny Copy Share Image
“Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.” — René Descartes Common sense Copy Share Image
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Law 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
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations — Rene Descartes Mind 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 Certain knowledge Copy Share Image
...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it. — Rene Descartes Awareness Copy Share Image
“The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.” — René Descartes 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 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 Copy Share Image
Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might… — René Descartes Confidence Copy Share Image
On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended… — Rene Descartes Body Copy Share Image
Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those… — Rene Descartes Good sense Copy Share Image
“For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned… — René Descartes Books 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 Copy Share Image
“But even if all agreed together, it would not be enough to have their teachings. For we shall never be mathematicians, say,… — René Descartes Education Copy Share Image
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds,… — René Descartes Psychology Copy Share Image
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to suspect that it is merely a dream, and wants to go… — René Descartes Dream Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because… — Rene Descartes Comparison Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
