Descartes Quote by William Barrett

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or…

— Woody Allen

“You've read Descartes," he remarked, every syllable edged in disbelief. ""I should like to hear your opinion on Cartesian dualism, then." Vivian thought for…

— Lisa Kleypas

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

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

— Plato

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

— James Mark Baldwin

“Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was right and…

— Jerry Fodor

“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while buying intellectual…

— Franklin Foer

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Cartesian,adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum- whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the…

— Ambrose Bierce

“What is knowledge? it is primarily and essentially idea. What is idea? A very complicated physiological process in the brain of an animal, the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical…

— Isaac Newton

“Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at least in…

— Marcel Proust