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Page xvi
... finally went into seclusion in Holland in 1629. From then onward , at the advice of his friends , he began setting down for publication the philosophical ideas which had been in gestation during the decade of his wanderings . At thirty ...
... finally went into seclusion in Holland in 1629. From then onward , at the advice of his friends , he began setting down for publication the philosophical ideas which had been in gestation during the decade of his wanderings . At thirty ...
Page xxxii
... Finally we shall not seek for the reason of natural things from the end which God or nature has set before Him in their creation ; for we should not take so much upon ourselves as to believe that God could take us into His counsels ...
... Finally we shall not seek for the reason of natural things from the end which God or nature has set before Him in their creation ; for we should not take so much upon ourselves as to believe that God could take us into His counsels ...
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... was esteemed inferior to my fellow - students , although there were amongst them some destined to fill the places of our masters . And finally our century seemed to me as flourishing , and as fertile in great minds , as DESCARTES.
... was esteemed inferior to my fellow - students , although there were amongst them some destined to fill the places of our masters . And finally our century seemed to me as flourishing , and as fertile in great minds , as DESCARTES.
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... finally that it is good to have examined all things , even those most full of superstition and falsehood , in order that we may know their just value , and avoid being deceived by them . But I considered that I had already given ...
... finally that it is good to have examined all things , even those most full of superstition and falsehood , in order that we may know their just value , and avoid being deceived by them . But I considered that I had already given ...
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... finally , as to false doctrines , I thought that I already knew well enough what they were worth to be subject to deception neither by the promises of an alchemist , the predictions of an astrologer , the impostures of a magician , the ...
... finally , as to false doctrines , I thought that I already knew well enough what they were worth to be subject to deception neither by the promises of an alchemist , the predictions of an astrologer , the impostures of a magician , the ...
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Page xxvi - I hold, with the Materialist, that the human body, like all living bodies, is a machine, all the operations of which will, sooner or later, be explained on physical principles. I believe that we shall, sooner or later, arrive at a mechanical equivalent of consciousness, just as we have arrived at a mechanical equivalent of heat.
Page 145 - And now that I know Him I have the means of acquiring a perfect knowledge of an infinitude of things, not only of those which relate to God Himself and other intellectual matters, but also of those which pertain to corporeal nature in so far as it is the object of pure mathematics [which have no concern with whether it exists or not].
Page 177 - But nevertheless, on the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am...
Page 219 - MEDITATION I Of the things which may be brought within the sphere of the doubtful. It is now some years since I detected how many were the false beliefs that I had from my earliest youth admitted as true, and how doubtful was everything I had since constructed on this basis; and from that time I was convinced that I must once for all seriously undertake to rid myself of all the opinions...
Page 236 - Of the existence of material things, and of the real distinction between the soul and body of man Nothing further now remains but to inquire whether material things exist.
Page 209 - ... the animal spirits to pass thence into the nerves, in such a manner as is required to produce this motion, in the same way as in a machine, and without the mind being able to hinder it. Now since we observe this in ourselves, why...
Page 36 - And if I write in French, which is the language of my country, in preference to Latin, which is that of my preceptors...
Page 3 - ... been my singular good fortune to have very early in life fallen in with certain tracks which have conducted me to considerations and maxims, of which I have formed a Method that gives me the means, as I think, of gradually augmenting my knowledge, and of raising it by little and little to the highest point which the mediocrity of my talents and the brief duration of my life will permit me to reach. For I have already reaped from it such fruits that, although I have been accustomed to think lowly...
Page 92 - But how do I know that He has not brought it to pass that there is no earth, no heaven, no extended body, no magnitude, no place, and that nevertheless [I possess the perceptions of all these things and that] they seem to me to exist just exactly as I now see them?
Page 134 - I do not escape the blame of misusing my freedom; for the light of nature, teaches us that the knowledge of the understanding should always precede the determination of the will. And it is in the misuse of the free will that the privation which constitutes the characteristic nature of error is met with. Privation, I say, is found in the act, in so far as it proceeds from me, but it is not found in the faculty which I have received from God, nor even in the act in so far as it depends on Him. For...