René Descartes Quotes

“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

“in order to ascertain the real opinions of such, I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than of what they said”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:words

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:experience judgement

“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:mind thought

“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who,...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:mind

“But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat;”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:thought doubt existence

“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that...”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

topic:soul existence body

“But what then am I? A thing which thinks. What is a thing which thinks? It is a thing which doubts, understands, conceives, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, which also imagines and feels.”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

topic:thinking doubt existence

“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:doubt judgement difficulty

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