Descartes Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image ““What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!”” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comfort Vortices Descartes Descartes Man Vortices Descartes Whirlwinds Bowels
“He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Every flower that gives its fragrance to the wandering air leaves its influence on the soul of man. The wheel and swoop of the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Tempestuous in her sorrow, the wind unrestrained squalls, as from charcoal clouds above, tears from heaven begin to fall.” — Michelle Connor Copy Share Image
“The wind you hear is the birth of memory when the moment hatches in time’s womb there will be no art talk. The only… — Keropatse Kgositsile Copy Share Image
“...as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted home over… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering through the meadows, life twisting and turning and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air!… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ah,steeds,steeds,what is steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep.” — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were introduced into… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended… — Lee Braver 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 a means… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about so many… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what? — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image