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But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal, — Rene Descartes

A long time ago, Descartes sad, "I think, therefore I am." But if you are not thinking, what? — Seungsahn

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation — Rene Descartes

Antonio Damasio has written three books: Looking for Spinoza, Descartes' Error, and The Feeling of What Happens. These — Terry Pratchett

It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once. — Rene Descartes

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist." — Taisen Deshimaru

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think. — George Carlin

The only secure knowledge is that I exist. — Rene Descartes

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. — Rene Descartes

Those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it. — Rene Descartes

She imagines herself as the long-dead Descartes, staring into his fireplace and building a world in his own mind. — Scott Westerfeld

Conquer yourself rather than the world. — Rene Descartes

The only thing that I know, is that I know nothing — Rene Descartes

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing. — Rene Descartes

For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection. — Rene Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. — Rene Descartes

Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") — Rene Descartes

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes

Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.) — Rene Descartes

So that there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned, — Rene Descartes

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — Rene Descartes

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder. — Flann O'Brien

I assume therefore I think I think yet still don't know a goddamn thing. — Brian Spellman

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin

Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness). — Lev Shestov

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible. — Rene Descartes

He lives well who is well hidden. — Rene Descartes

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation — Rene Descartes

Reason is nothing without imagination. — Rene Descartes

After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn't say, "I fuck therefore I am". — Jeanette Winterson

I love, therefore I am. — Robert Graves

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it." — Rene Descartes

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom. — Rene Descartes

The perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them. — Rene Descartes

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. — Rene Descartes

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. — Rene Descartes

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

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes

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

Science is practical philosophy. — Rene Descartes

Don't think too much. Descartes may come to existence when he thinks, but you perish and vanish when you think. — Oguz Atay

If I find some reason for doubt in each of my beliefs, that will be enough to reject all of them. — Rene Descartes

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. — Rene Descartes

To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain. — Rene Descartes

It is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it. — Rene Descartes

Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name. — Roger Zelazny

For 'tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well. — Rene Descartes

As we appreciate our feelings, we naturally build on Descartes' 'I think, therefore I am,' to realize 'I feel, therefore I am more than I think. — Deborah Sandella

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes

I am thinking, therefore I exist. — Rene Descartes

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes

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

The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing. — Rene Descartes

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

With me, everything turns into mathematics. — Rene Descartes

But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be. — Rene Descartes

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world. — Rene Descartes

One needs to know what thought is, what existence is and what certainty is. — Rene Descartes

It is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. — Rene Descartes

What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels! — Benjamin Franklin

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know. — Rene Descartes

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

Descartes useless and unnecessary. — Blaise Pascal

One should never judge anything unless it is known. — Rene Descartes

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. — Rene Descartes

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams

Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am) — Rene Descartes

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. — Rene Descartes

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

Nothing comes out of nothing. — Rene Descartes

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf. — Rene Descartes

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. — Rene Descartes

Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries. — Rachel Caine

I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay. — John Green

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

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them? — Rene Descartes

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am."
I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there. — Thich Nhat Hanh

That maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe. — Rene Descartes

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. — Rene Descartes

Descartes believed that idleness was essential to good mental work, — Mason Currey

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something. — Rene Descartes

Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed. — N.D. Wilson

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

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

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

In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know. - Descartes — Lex Bayer

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

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

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

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

I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am — Rene Descartes

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am. — Zygmunt Bauman

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking. — Rene Descartes

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. — Rene Descartes

It appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn. — Rene Descartes

Wow. I'm twenty years old. Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry in his early twenties. Talk about pressure. — Anna Kay Akana