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Alone Quotes by Rene Descartes
- God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
- If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons…
- By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists.…
- It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
- Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.
- The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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