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Rene Descartes Quotes

Rene Descartes quotes

French Mathematician March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650

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Rene Descartes quote: "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use..."
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin. Rene Descartes
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. Rene Descartes
that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same..."
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes
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
Rene Descartes quote: "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping..."
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.(English: "I doubt, therefore I..."
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I..."
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes
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. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must..."
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Rene Descartes
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts, affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions. Rene Descartes
And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call the human body; I am not a subtle penetrating air distributed throughout all these members; I am not a wind, a fire, a vapor, a breath or anything at all that I can image. I am supposing all these things to be nothing. Yet I find, while so doing, that I am still assured that I am a something. Rene Descartes
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright. Rene Descartes
although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size which our sense of sight presents; and we may very distinctly imagine the head of a lion joined to the body of a goat, without being therefore shut up to the conclusion that a chimaera exists; for it is not a dictate of reason that what we thus see or imagine is in reality existent; but it plainly tells us that all our ideas or notions contain in them some truth. Rene Descartes

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