#rené descartes

[philosophors]

“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

— René Descartes

[nobrashfestivity]

René Descartes, Principia Philosophiae, 1644

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

[key-cat]

我思う、ゆえに我あり

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes ルネ・デカルト

[wtfcl0ud]

[funeral]

René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

[majestativa]

Meanwhile, life thunders along,

[…]

We settle in to read aloud the linguistic eloquence of obscure contemporary fucking poetry. The pitfalls of Descartes’s dualism. The anarchy of flesh. The anxiety of goodness.

— Bianca Stone, What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems, (2022)

[cosmonautroger]

Norman Rockwell, René Descartes, Acid Horizon

[ragazzoarcano]

“A parte i nostri pensieri, non c'è nulla che sia davvero in nostro potere.”

— René Descartes

[blackswaneuroparedux]

La lecture de tous bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés qui en ont été les auteurs, et même une conversation étudiée, en laquelle ils ne nous découvrent que les meilleures de leurs pensées.

- René Descartes

[raudur]

[philosophors]

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

[key-cat]

真理を探究するのであれば、人生において一度は、あらゆる物事をできる限り深く疑ってみる必要がある。

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

René Descartes ルネ・デカルト

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Those who proceed but very slowly can make much greater progress, if they always follow the right path, than those who hurry and stray from it.

from Discourse on the Method by René Descartes 

[majestativa]

Maar’s mind remained sharp as ever. She studied and read widely throughout her life, whether novels by the Catholic Graham Greene and Gabriel García Márquez, or books on religion and philosophy, keeping a letter from the novelist Raymond Queneau, dated April 12, 1943. “Here is the reading list,” he wrote. “It’s mainly very academic, just like I told you. I believe you should start with an easy text – I suppose it’s the philosophical way of thinking: Plato, Descartes, Bergson and Kant followed by Hegel, Heidegger and Spinoza.” – books that remained by her side until the end.

— Louise Baring, Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso, (2017)

[diderots]

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