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Us Quotes by Rene Descartes
- There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it.
- Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from…
- Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
- Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to…
- The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.
- For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
- The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that…
- ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can…
- It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
- The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
- 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…
- The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay…
- The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong