Rene Descartes Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

  Rene Descartes

  Desire, Unseen, Motto

• Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.

  Rene Descartes

  Desire

• My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

  Rene Descartes

  Change, Believe, Power

• Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.

  Rene Descartes

  Desire, Littles, Matter

• 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

  Judging, Desire, Use

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.94, Courier Corporation

• Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

  Rene Descartes

  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Rene Descartes (2008). “Discourse on the Method and the Meditations”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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

  Thinking, Common Sense, Desire

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