René Descartes Quotes

“For just as faith teaches us that the supreme felicity of the other life consists only in this contemplation of the Divine Majesty, so we continue to learn by experience that a similar meditation, though incomparably less perfect, causes us to...”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

topic:life faith satisfaction

“And it is evident that it is not less repugnant that falsity or imperfection, in so far as it is imperfection, should proceed from God, than that truth or perfection should proceed from nothing.”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:truth

“It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be incomparably superior to that of every other.”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:truth religion

“All that up to the present time I have accepted as most true and certain I have learned either from the senses or through the senses; but it is sometimes proved to me that these senses are deceptive, and it is wiser not to trust entirely to...”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

topic:truth

“It is now some years since I detected how many were the false beliefs that I had from my earliest youth admitted as true, and how doubtful was everything I had since constructed on this basis”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

topic:truth belief

“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:knowledge science ignorance

“And this same knowledge extends likewise to all other things which I recollect having formerly demonstrated, such as the truths of geometry and the like; for what can be alleged against them to cause me to place them in doubt?”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

topic:knowledge doubt

“It is certain that I no less find the idea of God, that is to say, the idea of a supremely perfect Being, in me, than that of any figure or number whatever it is;”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

topic:God

“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:power desire thought

“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...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:men judgement

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