Author: René Descartes

Cited by

• Yvonne Woon (1)
  • IN: Love Reborn (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true I have acquired either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.
    FROM: Meditations on First Philosophy, (1641), NULL, France
• Julia Bell (1)
  • IN: Massive (2002) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
    FROM: Sixth Meditation, (1641), Book, France
• Donna Freitas (1)
  • IN: The Body Market (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nature teaches me that my own body is surrounded by many other bodies, some of which I have to seek after, and others to shun. And indeed, as I perceive different sorts of colors, sounds, odors, tastes, heat, hardness, etc., I safely conclude that... some are agreeable, and others disagreeable, [and] there can be no doubt that my body, or rather my entire self, in as far as I am composed of body and mind, may be variously affected, both beneficially and hurtfully, by surrounding bodies.
    FROM: "Of the Existence of Material Things and of the Real Distinction Between the Mind and the Body of Man", Meditations on First Philosophy, (1641), Book, France
• Guinevere Glasfurd (1)
  • IN: The Words in My Hand (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To live well you must live unseen.
    FROM: letter to Mersenne, (1634), Letter, France
• Mette Jakobsen (1)
  • IN: The Vanishing Act (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And the longer and more carefully I examine all these things, the more clearly and distinctly I know that they are true.
    FROM: Discourse on Method and the Meditations, (1637), Book, France
• Alan Foster (1)
  • IN: Cyber Way (1990) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 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.
    FROM: Principles of Philosophy, (1644), Book, France
• Dennis Lehane (1)
  • IN: Since We Fell (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Masked, I advance,
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France