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Reason Quotes by Rene Descartes
- 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…
- So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for…
- Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can…
- ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can…
- Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably…
- 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.
- Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its…
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