Rationalism
Rationalism holds that reason — not the senses — is the primary source of knowledge. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz established its core framework.
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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
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🇫🇷René Descartes
Philosophy
rationalism
1596–1650
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
23 quotes
🇩🇪Gottfried Leibniz
Mathematics
rationalism
1646–1716
"G. W. Leibniz Texts and Translations, Donald Rutherford, U California, San Diego"
12 quotes
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Philosophy
Rationalism
1126–1198
"If teleological study of the world is philosophy, and if the Law commands such a study, then the Law commands philosophy."
19 quotes
🇮🇹Giambattista Vico
Philosophy
Rationalism
1668–1744
"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."
10 quotes
🇫🇷Marquis de Condorcet
Politics
Rationalism
1743–1794
"Enjoy your life without comparing to that of others. It is enough for you to know that you are good, without examining whether others are as good as you."
2 quotes
Christian Wolff
Mathematics
rationalism
1679–1754
"Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable."
2 quotes
Notable Quotes
"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."
— René Descartes, b. 1596View →
"I suppose the body to be nothing but a statue or machine made of earth, which God forms with the explicit intention of making it as much as possible like us."
— René Descartes, b. 1596View →
"Descartes at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"
— René Descartes, b. 1596View →
"So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there."
— René Descartes, b. 1596View →
"In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things."
— René Descartes, b. 1596View →