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Rene Descartes Quotes: "There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it."

There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked."

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.




Rene Descartes Quotes: "In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best."

Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.




Rene Descartes Quotes: "Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it."

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions."

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it."

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




Rene Descartes Quotes: "Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction."

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis."

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them."

Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.




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

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



Rene Descartes Quotes: "There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts."

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom."

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears."

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe."

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking."

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "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 entirety, in each of us."

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 entirety, in each of us.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world."

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many."

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason."

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have."

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass."

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.



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

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 Quotes: "Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them."

Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us."

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



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries."

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature."

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



Rene Descartes Quotes: "I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics."

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise."

I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books."

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger."

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones."

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear."

When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "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?"

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 Quotes: "We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand."

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth."

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing."

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well."

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "I think therefore I am."

I think therefore I am.



Rene Descartes Quotes: "I think therefore I am."

I think therefore I am.