Quotations by Descartes

Generosity, which is as it were the key to all the other virtues.

• On Criterion of right action, their position: Virtue ethics70%

I always had an intense desire to learn to distinguish the true from the false, in order to see clearly into my own actions and to walk with confidence in this life.

• On The value of truth, their position: The primacy of truth75%

I think, therefore I am.

• On Relation to certainty, their position: Dogmatism90%

Instead of that speculative philosophy taught in the schools, we may find a practical one […] and thus render ourselves, as it were, masters and possessors of nature.

• On Humanity's place in nature, their position: Mastery85%

To strive always to master myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world.

• On Relation to desire, their position: Reasoned selection40%