Rene Descartes Quotes

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

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

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

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

Science is practical philosophy.