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We never understand a thing so...

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

Good sense is, of all things a...

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

How do we know that anything r...

How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

Even if I were to suppose that...

Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

There is a great difference be...

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

When I consider this carefully...

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

This result could have been ac...

This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

I think therefore am....

I think therefore am.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

In God there is an infinitude ...

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

Instead I ought to be grateful...

Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

He lives well who is well hidd...

He lives well who is well hidden.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

And thereby make ourselves, as...

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

Truths are more likely to be d...

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

If ... it is not in my power t...

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement ...

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

If I found any new truths in t...

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

These long chains of perfectly...

These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

The reading of all good books ...

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 a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

Human wisdom remains always on...

Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

For how do we know that the th...

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

The object of music is a Sound...

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

Rene Descartes 177 quotes

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