Cartesian Rationalism Quotes & Sayings

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. — Arthur Koestler

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par. — Bobby Jones

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires. — Simone De Beauvoir

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy. — Jorja Fox

I want to press the button on her that controls that noise, that turns it up, that makes it music in my ears. — Lauren Blakely