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1 Pre, 1 | published in French in the year 1637; not however, with the design
2 III, 25| 25. And it cannot be said that
3 III, 26| 26. But perhaps I am something
4 III, 27| 27. Yet, on looking more closely
5 III, 28| 28. And, truly, I see nothing
6 III, 29| 29. And I ask, from whom could
7 III, 30| 30. But if I were independent
8 III, 31| 31. And though I were to suppose
9 III, 32| 32. All that is here required,
10 III, 33| 33. But perhaps the being upon
11 III, 34| 34. And it is quite manifest
12 III, 35| 35. Nor can it be supposed
13 III, 36| 36. Finally, with regard to
14 III, 37| 37. There remains only the
15 III, 38| 38. And, in truth, it is not
16 III, 39| 39. But before I examine this
17 I, 1 | to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences.
18 | above
19 IV, 12| 12. But if I abstain from judging of a thing
20 IV, 1 | now without difficulty to abstract my mind from the contemplation
21 III, 4 | supposing which, and other like absurdities, I discover a manifest contradiction.
22 IV, 11| opposite. Of this I lately had abundant experience, when I laid
23 V, 11| I shall be unwilling to accept in thought aught that I
24 VI, 17| the throat that is usually accompanied in the mind by the sensation
25 Ded, 5 | what I have been able to accomplish on the subject is contained
26 VI, 2 | mind ]. And although, in accordance with the habit I have of
27 V, 4 | so evidently true, and so accordant with my nature, that when
28 IV, 15| imperfection in Deity that he has accorded to me the power of giving
29 VI, 2 | application of my mind (acie mentis), and this is what
30 VI, 24| we must, in conclusion, acknowledge the weakness of our nature.~
31 III, 27| that my knowledge daily acquired new degrees of perfection,
32 VI, 23| hurts the foot than by one acting in a different quarter,
33 II, 5 | and thought, and all those actions I referred to the soul;
34 VI, 2 | conceiving or understanding (ad intelligendum); and this
35 Ded, 5 | matters where no one proof of adequate certainty is to be had;
36 Ded, 5 | nevertheless, that they will not be adequately understood by many, as well
37 V, 6 | even when I still strongly adhered to the objects of sense,
38 III, 39| attributes -- and behold, admire, and adore the beauty of
39 I, 1 | of all the opinions I had adopted, and of commencing anew
40 III, 39| and behold, admire, and adore the beauty of this light
41 VI, 24| matters relating to the advantage of the body, and being able
42 VI, 4 | that, in order the more advantageously to examine them, it is proper
43 V, 11| although perhaps I may not then advert to this relation in particular.
44 Pre, 6 | On the contrary, I would advise none to read this work,
45 VI, 22| brain; and this movement affects the mind with the sensation
46 VI, 6 | for there is assuredly no affinity, at least none that I am
47 Ded, 5 | certitude and evidence, I am afraid, nevertheless, that they
48 I, 1 | until I had attained an age so mature as to leave me
49 III, 37| consequently there but remains the alternative that it is innate, in the
50 I, 5 | greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself
51 II, 5 | warrant me in wasting my time amid subtleties of this sort.
52 Pre, 4 | treatise I will show more amply how, from my possessing
53 VI, 7 | whose arm or leg had been amputated, that they still occasionally
54 III, 5 | a chimera, the sky, an angel or God. Others, again, have
55 VI, 6 | inclinations toward joy, sadness, anger, and similar passions. And,
56 II, 6 | that is, a mind (mens sive animus), understanding, or reason,
57 II, 6 | existent; but what thing? The answer was, a thinking thing. ~
58 VI, 7 | difficulty in finding suitable answers to them; for as nature seemed
59 Pre, 7 | varied that I venture to anticipate that nothing, at least nothing
60 Ded, 5 | demonstrations of Archimedes, Apollonius, Pappus, and others, which,
61 II, 13| human beings from these appearances, and thus I comprehend,
62 II, 10| that are known to me, and appertain to my proper nature; in
63 III, 15| mode of existing formally appertains to the causes of these ideas (
64 II, 15| of the piece of wax, is applicable to all the other things
65 II, 5 | own nature alone, when I applied myself to the consideration
66 VI, 2 | can likewise imagine it by applying the attention of my mind
67 VI, 21| these parts a certain motion appointed by nature to cause in the
68 II, 9 | perceives, that is, who apprehends certain objects as by the
69 VI, 19| if I had not already been apprised of it on other grounds. ~
70 Ded, 6 | them the authority of your approbation, and render a public testimony
71 Ded, 6 | them your patronage and approval. But since your Faculty
72 II, 10| of the case. My mind is apt to wander, and will not
73 III, 15| which is, as it were, the archetype in which all the reality
74 I, 12| But this undertaking is arduous, and a certain indolence
75 VI, 2 | at the same time to the area which they contain. Thus
76 III, 25| consequently that it may have arisen from nothing in other words,
77 VI, 13| confused modes of thinking, arising from the union and apparent
78 II, 5 | possessed a countenance, hands, arms, and all the fabric of members
79 I, 12| former beliefs, and fear to arouse myself from my slumber,
80 I, 9 | do I know that he has not arranged that there should be neither
81 Pre, 7 | feel persuaded that I have arrived at a certain and evident
82 VI, 11| possess in myself the means of arriving at the truth. And, in the
83 Pre, 7 | subjects at first sight, nor arrogate so much to myself as to
84 II, 13| cloaks that might cover artificial machines, whose motions
85 Pre, 7 | truth, in order that I may ascertain whether the reasonings which
86 Pre, 5 | things, namely, either the ascription of human affections to Deity,
87 II, 14| the common, ought to be ashamed to seek occasions of doubting
88 III, 29| 29. And I ask, from whom could I, in that
89 VI, 1 | regarding them in this aspect, I can conceive them clearly
90 III, 38| the goods after which I aspire and the ideas of which I
91 III, 38| and one who unceasingly aspires after something better and
92 VI, 10| power of changing place, of assuming diverse figures, and the
93 IV, 4 | recurring to myself, experience assures me that I am nevertheless
94 III, 11| whole earth, is taken up on astronomical grounds, that is, elicited
95 I, 8 | from this that Physics, Astronomy, Medicine, and all the other
96 I, 1 | magnitude, I waited until I had attained an age so mature as to leave
97 V, 14| as soon as I cease from attending to the process of proof,
98 IV, 16| I can nevertheless, by attentive and oft-repeated meditation,
99 V, 3 | the object to which it is attributed. Further, I can enumerate
100 Pre, 5 | affections to Deity, or the undue attribution to our minds of so much
101 Ded, 5 | reputation of bold thinkers by audaciously impugning such truths as
102 IV, 8 | diminishing liberty, rather augment and fortify it. But the
103 III, 27| my knowledge, that it is augmented by degrees. Further, although
104 IV, 6 | of final causes is of no avail in physical or natural ]
105 III, 38| argument of which I have here availed myself to establish the
106 VI, 7 | from which reason made me averse, I thought that I ought
107 Syn, 6 | review, while the means of avoiding them are pointed out; and,
108 I, 10| am constrained at last to avow that there is nothing of
109 I, 12| is but a vision, dreads awakening, and conspires with the
110 | away
111 I, 11| until at length, having thus balanced my old by my new prejudices,
112 I, 1 | consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly
113 Ded, 6 | lead them, perhaps, to do battle in their own persons for
114 IV, 8 | leads me to discern that I bear a certain image and similitude
115 III, 39| behold, admire, and adore the beauty of this light so unspeakably
116 | becoming
117 I, 5 | I was lying undressed in bed? At the present moment,
118 II, 11| recently taken from the beehive; it has not yet lost the
119 | beginning
120 I, 12| imaginary liberty, when he begins to suspect that it is but
121 III, 39| marvelous attributes -- and behold, admire, and adore the beauty
122 VI, 14| variously affected, both beneficially and hurtfully, by surrounding
123 V, 12| prejudices, and my thought beset on all sides by the continual
124 Ded, 2 | God, the same Being who bestows grace to enable us to believe
125 I, 4 | disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause them
126 VI, 15| which I perceive; that in a bitter or sweet body there is the
127 Ded, 2 | those who do not possess it blameworthy. This is manifest from these
128 III, 12| but only from a sort of blind impulse, that I believed
129 III, 28| obscured, and, as it were, blinded by the images of sensible
130 II, 12| melted, greater when it is boiled, and greater still when
131 Ded, 5 | number seek the reputation of bold thinkers by audaciously
132 VI, 17| made up and composed of bones, nerves, muscles, veins,
133 Ded, 2 | from these words of the Book of Wisdom, chap. xiii.,
134 Pre, 5 | impugned, and that by arguments borrowed from the common places of
135 III, 14| reality than that which it borrows from our consciousness,
136 I, 4 | state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded
137 III, 4 | their truth that I naturally break out into expressions such
138 II, 7 | or flame, or vapor, or breath, or any of all the things
139 III, 16| conviction of their truth brightens and becomes distinct. But,
140 I, 12| quiet rest, in place of bringing any light of day, should
141 I, 1 | commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if
142 VI, 15| that from the flame of a candle, I do not, nevertheless,
143 I, 12| of life; and just as the captive, who, perchance, was enjoying
144 I, 1 | opportunely freed my mind from all cares and am happily disturbed
145 Pre, 6 | regard to those who, without caring to comprehend the order
146 II, 1 | yesterday, that is, proceed by casting aside all that admits of
147 Ded, 6 | strongest support of the Catholic Church. ~ ~
148 Pre, 6 | may find opportunity for cavilling in several places, they
149 Pre, 2 | might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me
150 II, 7 | body, are merely dreams or chimeras]. From this I discover that
151 IV, 8 | thought, the more freely do I choose and embrace it; and assuredly
152 VI, 3 | to consider it when it chooses, it may thus imagine corporeal
153 IV, 9 | falls into error and sin by choosing the false in room of the
154 Ded, 3 | these, and expressly enjoins Christian philosophers to refute their
155 Ded, 6 | support of the Catholic Church. ~ ~
156 IV, 8 | none that is not small and circumscribed, and in God immense and
157 III, 2 | more widely, I will use circumspection, and consider with care
158 I, 4 | and withal escape being classed with persons in a state
159 Pre, 6 | shall study only detached clauses for the purpose of small
160 I, 4 | that their head is made of clay, their body of glass, or
161 Syn, 2 | our being able to form the clearest possible conception (conceptus --
162 II, 13| the window beyond hats and cloaks that might cover artificial
163 I, 4 | brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as
164 I, 10| thoughtlessness or levity, but from cogent and maturely considered
165 I, 6 | found in our consciousness (cogitatio),are formed. ~
166 Ded, 6 | of such beliefs, who are cognisant of the disorders which doubt
167 VI, 1 | certain application of the cognitive faculty ( facultas cognoscitiva)
168 VI, 1 | cognitive faculty ( facultas cognoscitiva) to a body which is immediately
169 Ded, 5 | Not that I here essayed to collect all the diverse reasons
170 VI, 7 | closely viewed, and that colossal figures, raised on the summits
171 II, 15| that when I see, or, which comes to the same thing, when
172 I, 1 | opinions I had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building
173 Ded, 6 | would not here become me to commend at greater length the cause
174 Pre, 6 | however, expecting any commendation from the crowd for my endeavors,
175 VI, 17| called extrinsic, by which I compare a sick man and an imperfectly
176 Syn, 3 | desirous to avoid the use of comparisons taken from material objects,
177 V, 6 | of my mind is such as to compel me to assert to what I clearly
178 VI, 9 | is made, in order to be compelled to judge them different;
179 Syn, 2 | premises from which it is competent for us to infer the immortality
180 IV, 1 | dependent being, the idea of a complete and independent being, that
181 V, 12| which have the power of completely persuading me. And although,
182 VI, 13| it, that my mind and body compose a certain unity. For if
183 VI, 6 | feet and other members composing that body which I considered
184 IV, 6 | am not always capable of comprehending the reasons why God acts
185 VI, 10| their formal concept, they comprise some sort of intellection;
186 II, 5 | certain figure; that can be comprised in a certain place, and
187 III, 21| diversity between the two concepts, yet these two ideas seem
188 Syn, 2 | clearest possible conception (conceptus -- concept) of the soul
189 VI, 10| and accordingly it must be concluded, that corporeal objects
190 III, 35| supposed that several causes concurred in my production, and that
191 IV, 15| also to complain that God concurs with me in forming the acts
192 Ded, 3 | Leo X. (in session viii.), condemns these, and expressly enjoins
193 Pre, 1 | on the Method of rightly conducting the Reason, and seeking
194 VI, 24| examination, it must be confessed that the life of man is
195 VI, 7 | thought that I ought not to confide much in its teachings. And
196 I, 3 | prudence not to place absolute confidence in that by which we have
197 Ded, 1 | shall learn its design, I am confident that you also will consider
198 I, 11| of deferring to them and confiding in them so long as I shall
199 Syn, 2 | constituted only by a certain configuration of members, and by other
200 Syn, 2 | mind and body is, besides, confirmed in this Second Meditation,
201 Syn, 4 | to be known as well for confirming the preceding truths, as
202 III, 19| with so much obscurity and confusion, that I cannot determine
203 VI, 3 | thence, with probability, conjecture that they exist, but only
204 VI, 24| able to use my memory in connecting present with past knowledge,
205 Pre, 6 | comprehend the order and connection of the reasonings, shall
206 I, 5 | asleep; I extend this hand consciously and with express purpose,
207 VI, 6 | presented to me without my consent being required, so that
208 III, 31| anew as it were, that is, conserve me. In truth, it is perfectly
209 VI, 3 | some way upon itself, and considers some one of the ideas it
210 II, 12| little before appeared to me conspicuous under these forms, and which
211 I, 12| vision, dreads awakening, and conspires with the agreeable illusions
212 II, 3 | deepest cunning, who is constantly employing all his ingenuity
213 IV, 12| found the privation that constitutes the form of error. Privation,
214 V, 14| its truth, yet because my constitution is also such as to incapacitate
215 VI, 17| sick man and an imperfectly constructed clock with the idea I have
216 I, 1 | doing wrong were I still to consume in deliberation any of the
217 II, 7 | is nothing more than to contemplate the figure or image of a
218 VI, 3 | turns toward the body, and contemplates in it some object conformed
219 V, 12| beset on all sides by the continual presence of the images of
220 IV, 1 | existence, each moment of its continuance, is absolutely dependent
221 II, 16| this stage, that, by long continued meditation, I may more deeply
222 V, 3 | philosophers commonly call continuous, or the extension in length,
223 VI, 21| contracted in the foot, contract at the same time the inmost
224 VI, 21| the brain, when they are contracted in the foot, contract at
225 II, 11| finger. In fine, all that contributes to make a body as distinctly
226 VI, 10| produced in my mind without my contributing to it in any way, and even
227 II, 10| then be the more easily controlled. ~
228 III, 1 | false; and thus, holding converse only with myself, and closely
229 III, 12| other means it might be, conveyed their ideas or images into
230 I, 1 | and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking
231 I, 2 | but as even now my reason convinces me that I ought not the
232 VI, 21| As, for example, in the cord A, B, C, D, which is in
233 VI, 21| foot, which, extending like cords from it to the brain, when
234 II, 5 | members that appears in a corpse, and which I called by the
235 VI, 11| likewise given me a faculty of correcting, I think I may with safety
236 VI, 14| proceed, certain varieties corresponding to them, although, perhaps,
237 Syn, 2 | does not follow from the corruption of the body, and thus to
238 V, 13| conception of this truth has cost me much close thinking,
239 Ded, 3 | nevertheless, since the Lateran Council, held under Leo X. (in session
240 Ded, 6 | society, after the Sacred Councils, received so great deference,
241 II, 5 | thought that I possessed a countenance, hands, arms, and all the
242 VI, 17| composed of wheels and counter weights, observes not the
243 II, 13| hats and cloaks that might cover artificial machines, whose
244 I, 4 | purple when destitute of any covering; or that their head is made
245 I, 12| being has laid snares for my credulity; I will consider myself
246 Pre, 6 | any commendation from the crowd for my endeavors, or a wide
247 Ded, 4 | this, who knew that I had cultivated a certain Method of resolving
248 II, 3 | highest power and the deepest cunning, who is constantly employing
249 Pre, 6 | noisy criticism, as is the custom with many, I may say that
250 I, 11| remembrance. For those old and customary opinions perpetually recur --
251 VI, 19| arm, or any other part is cut off, I am conscious that
252 VI, 13| any part of his vessel is damaged; and when my body has need
253 VI, 22| remove the cause of it as dangerous and hurtful to the foot.
254 I, 4 | disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors as to cause
255 III, 39| which is to some degree dazzled by the sight, will permit.
256 I, 2 | it be necessary even to deal with each belief individually,
257 Ded | SAGE AND ILLUSTRIOUS~ ~THE DEAN AND DOCTORS OF THE SACRED
258 III, 9 | of what the natural light declares to be true, and which is
259 II, 1 | all of a sudden into very deep water, I am so greatly disconcerted
260 II, 3 | the highest power and the deepest cunning, who is constantly
261 Ded, 6 | least to indicate these defects to myself that I may endeavour
262 Ded, 6 | Councils, received so great deference, it being the universal
263 I, 11| will I lose the habit of deferring to them and confiding in
264 III, 24| comparison of which I knew the deficiencies of my nature ? ~
265 IV, 5 | words, it is not the simple deficiency or want of some knowledge
266 VI, 15| conception, I must accurately define what I properly understand
267 VI, 17| maker, I may say that it is deflected from its proper nature when
268 I, 1 | On this account, I have delayed so long that I should henceforth
269 IV, 11| at the moment the will is deliberating upon them; for, however
270 I, 1 | were I still to consume in deliberation any of the time that now
271 Pre, 6 | senses, and likewise to deliver themselves from all prejudice;
272 VI, 24| purpose of examining them, no deliverance is given by any one of these
273 Syn, 1 | of the greatest, since it delivers us from all prejudice, and
274 Syn, 3 | God, which is found in us, demands God himself for its cause. ~
275 I, 12| but that some malignant demon, who is at once exceedingly
276 V, 7 | nature than that all which is demonstrable of any figure or number
277 V, 6 | and I can nevertheless demonstrate diverse properties of their
278 II, 5 | and if I had wished to describe it according to the notions
279 Syn, 6 | of this distinction are described; the human mind is shown
280 Pre, 6 | objections, or such as shall be deserving of reply. ~
281 II, 16| long accustomed, it will be desirable to tarry for some time at
282 II, 9 | and denies the others; who desires to know more of them, and
283 II, 9 | many things, sometimes even despite his will; and is likewise
284 VI, 17| use for which a clock was destined by its maker, I may say
285 II, 11| color changes, its figure is destroyed, its size increases, it
286 IV, 14| be taken from it without destroying it]; and certainly, the
287 Syn, 2 | sufficient to show that the destruction of the mind does not follow
288 Pre, 6 | reasonings, shall study only detached clauses for the purpose
289 Pre, 2 | before undertaking their more detailed discussion. ~
290 VI, 16| seem to have occasionally detected error, and thus to be directly
291 V, 5 | figure possesses a certain determinate nature, form, or essence,
292 V, 10| of the existence of God, determines me to think in this way:
293 III, 31| conservation and creation differ merely in respect of our
294 II, 7 | thin and penetrating air diffused through all these members,
295 V, 11| none of which I can either diminish or change. ~
296 IV, 8 | knowledge, very far from diminishing liberty, rather augment
297 III, 4 | other hand, as often as I direct my attention to things which
298 VI, 14| are agreeable, and others disagreeable, there can be no doubt that
299 VI, 24| a sudden and as suddenly disappeared, as do the images I see
300 II, 1 | deep water, I am so greatly disconcerted as to be unable either to
301 VI, 2 | representation be of any use in discovering and unfolding the properties
302 Pre, 6 | and at the same time to discuss the principles of the entire
303 Pre, 1 | the path which I follow in discussing them is so little trodden,
304 IV, 1 | apply it to those which, as disengaged from all matter, are purely
305 I, 4 | insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious
306 Ded, 6 | who are cognisant of the disorders which doubt of these truths
307 I, 12| should prove inadequate to dispel the darkness that will arise
308 VI, 21| experienced by means of the nerves dispersed over the foot, which, extending
309 IV, 11| conjectures may be that dispose me to form a judgment in
310 IV, 8 | because God thus internally disposes my thought, the more freely
311 VI, 11| himself, or the order and disposition established by God in created
312 II, 7 | do not now enter into any dispute regarding it. I can only
313 VI, 15| the stars, towers, and all distant bodies, are of the same
314 VI, 6 | which gave me the means of distinguishing the sky, the earth, the
315 I, 11| present yield too much to distrust, since the end I now seek
316 I, 1 | all cares and am happily disturbed by no passions], and since
317 VI, 20| parts of the body may be diversely disposed, as is proved by
318 III, 4 | necessary at this stage to divide all my thoughts into certain
319 III, 31| whole time of my life may be divided into an infinity of parts,
320 Ded | ILLUSTRIOUS~ ~THE DEAN AND DOCTORS OF THE SACRED FACULTY OF
321 II, 14| ashamed to seek occasions of doubting from the vulgar forms of
322 | down
323 I, 2 | necessarily involves the downfall of the whole edifice, I
324 III, 37| from God; for I have not drawn it from the senses, nor
325 III, 11| appears to me extremely small draws its origin from the senses,
326 Pre, 5 | these strictures from a dread of being, in the first instance,
327 I, 12| that it is but a vision, dreads awakening, and conspires
328 I, 5 | moments. How often have I dreamt that I was in these familiar
329 I, 5 | circumstances, that I was dressed, and occupied this place
330 I, 4 | fire, clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in my
331 VI, 17| in the way required for drinking, and thus increase its malady
332 VI, 11| although they are highly dubious and uncertain, nevertheless
333 Ded, 4 | instances, I judged it to be my duty to make trial of it also
334 Syn, 3 | much objective reality i. e., participates by representation
335 Pre, 6 | willing to meditate with me in earnest, to detach their minds from
336 III, 1 | my eyes, I will stop my ears, I will turn away my senses
337 Ded, 5 | prejudice, and able with ease to detach itself from the
338 Syn, 1 | prejudice, and affords the easiest pathway by which the mind
339 I, 2 | the downfall of the whole edifice, I will at once approach
340 III, 1 | their objects, I will even efface from my consciousness all
341 Ded, 6 | questions will very soon be effaced from the minds of men. For
342 III, 14| evidently true of those effects, whose reality is actual
343 Pre, 7 | with myself will also be effectual in convincing others. I
344 II, 7 | itself, I frame an image (efffingo), reminds me of my error;
345 IV, 8 | render it stronger and more efficacious, as in respect of the object,
346 III, 14| be as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in its
347 I, 1 | SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware
348 IV, 8 | which I possess, and that of election or the power of free choice, --
349 IV, 14| consists only of a single element, and that indivisible, it
350 II, 12| or less directed to the elements which it contains, and of
351 III, 11| astronomical grounds, that is, elicited from certain notions born
352 | elsewhere
353 III, 11| seems to have immediately emanated from it is the most unlike. ~
354 V, 1 | chiefly to do is to essay to emerge from the state of doubt
355 II, 11| although struck upon, it emits no sound. Does the same
356 II, 3 | cunning, who is constantly employing all his ingenuity in deceiving
357 III, 1 | I will consider them as empty and false; and thus, holding
358 VI, 24| great service, not only in enabling me to recognize the errors
359 III, 1 | examining my nature, I will endeavor to obtain by degrees a more
360 III, 2 | aware I knew. Now, as I am endeavoring to extend my knowledge more
361 Ded, 6 | defects to myself that I may endeavour to remedy them; and, finally,
362 IV, 8 | that Deity ought to have endowed me with a larger faculty
363 IV, 6 | discover the impenetrable ] ends of Deity. ~
364 IV, 15| or simply by so deeply engraving on my memory the resolution
365 Ded, 3 | condemns these, and expressly enjoins Christian philosophers to
366 I, 12| captive, who, perchance, was enjoying in his dreams an imaginary
367 II, 12| mind alone ( mens, Lat., entendement, F.) which perceives it.
368 II, 7 | determine, and do not now enter into any dispute regarding
369 I, 1 | the sciences. But as this enterprise appeared to me to be one
370 III, 14| formally or eminently, all that enters into its composition, in
371 II, 1 | immovable; so, also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest
372 Pre, 7 | Hence it is that I earnestly entreat my readers not to come to
373 II, 3 | from the objects I have now enumerated, of which it is impossible
374 V, 8 | that of a valley, or the equality of its three angles to two
375 III, 9 | to be true, and which is equally trustworthy; but with respect
376 Pre, 4 | there is here something equivocal; for it may be taken either
377 IV, 16| way the habitude of not erring. ~
378 Ded, 5 | Treatise. Not that I here essayed to collect all the diverse
379 Syn, 6 | them of great utility in establishing what they prove, viz., that
380 Ded, 6 | of the importance of the establishment of such beliefs, who are
381 VI, 2 | intellection (imaginatio et intellectio pura). ~
382 V, 12| alone that necessary and eterna existence pertains? ~
383 II, 5 | like wind, or flame, or ether, spread through my grosser
384 II, 11| taste exhales, the smell evaporates, the color changes, its
385 III, 39| other truths that may be evolved out of it, I think it proper
386 I, 4 | my procedure according to examples so extravagant. ~
387 III, 27| actually in it, still all these excellences make not the slightest approach
388 VI, 15| the term being reserved exclusively to designate the things
389 Ded, 2 | said that they are without excuse; and again, in the same
390 I, 1 | should be better able to execute my design. On this account,
391 IV, 15| certain of its parts are not exempt from defect, as others are,
392 Syn, 2 | the mind which, in the exercise of the freedom peculiar
393 VI, 19| is the same mind that is exercised all entire] in willing,
394 VI, 2 | intelligendum); and this special exertion of mind clearly shows the
395 II, 11| what remained of the taste exhales, the smell evaporates, the
396 Ded, 2 | the fear of God nor the expectation of another life; and although
397 II, 1 | to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough
398 Pre, 6 | Philosophy, without, however, expecting any commendation from the
399 Pre, 1 | thought it would not be expedient to illustrate it at greater
400 VI, 22| to the mind on which it experiences a sensation, viz, of pain,
401 VI, 20| is proved by innumerable experiments, which it is unnecessary
402 VI, 3 | no other obvious mode of explaining it, I thence, with probability,
403 VI, 6 | I was unable to give any explanation, unless that I was so taught
404 Syn, 2 | of the soul, involve an explication of the whole principles
405 IV, 6 | me that I cannot, without exposing myself to the charge of
406 II, 3 | necessarily true each time it is expressed by me, or conceived in my
407 II, 13| although, without at all giving expression to what I think, I consider
408 III, 4 | naturally break out into expressions such as these: Deceive me
409 VI, 21| dispersed over the foot, which, extending like cords from it to the
410 IV, 14| and certainly, the more extensive it is, the more cause I
411 I, 6 | forms the most fantastic and extraordinary, cannot bestow upon them
412 I, 4 | according to examples so extravagant. ~
413 VI, 21| happen that although their extremities in the foot are not affected,
414 VI, 17| thought, and hence called extrinsic, by which I compare a sick
415 VI, 15| impression a star makes on my eye is not larger than that
416 II, 12| mens, Lat., entendement, F.) which perceives it. I
417 II, 5 | hands, arms, and all the fabric of members that appears
418 I, 10| here said of a Deity is fabulous: nevertheless, in whatever
419 VI, 1 | the cognitive faculty ( facultas cognoscitiva) to a body
420 Ded, 2 | for although to us, the faithful, it be sufficient to hold
421 V, 10| are not analogous, and a fallacy lurks under the semblance
422 II, 1 | resolved; and, just as if I had fallen all of a sudden into very
423 IV, 9 | indifferent to such, it readily falls into error and sin by choosing
424 I, 12| any of the senses, and as falsely believing that I am possessed
425 Syn, 2 | to the Fourth Meditation. Farther, it is necessary, for the
426 III, 38| probable that he in some way fashioned me after his own image and
427 I, 10| which I exist, whether by fate, or chance, or by an endless
428 Pre, 1 | all, lest even the more feeble minds should believe that
429 VI, 22| which the mind actually feels. In the same way, when we
430 II, 7 | any of the things I can feign in imagination. Moreover,
431 III, 39| by faith that the supreme felicity of another life consists
432 II, 11| since all the things that fell under taste, smell, sight,
433 III, 37| even a pure production or fiction of my mind, for it is not
434 II, 2 | motion, and place are merely fictions of my mind. What is there,
435 II, 5 | a certain place, and so fill a certain space as therefrom
436 II, 1 | Meditation of yesterday has filled my mind with so many doubts,
437 IV, 6 | that the whole class of final causes is of no avail in
438 VI, 7 | had no great difficulty in finding suitable answers to them;
439 II, 11| when struck upon with the finger. In fine, all that contributes
440 VI, 22| that one which is the best fitted, and generally the most
441 IV, 17| assuredly reach truth if I only fix my attention sufficiently
442 I, 12| as without hands, eyes, flesh, blood, or any of the senses,
443 IV, 10| question, it very manifestly followed that I myself existed, I
444 IV, 10| was true, not that I was forced to this judgment by any
445 II, 5 | itself, but by something foreign to it by which it is touched
446 Pre, 7 | that I have been able to forsee all that may be the source
447 I, 6 | motion of the head, the forth-putting of the hands -- are merely
448 IV, 8 | liberty, rather augment and fortify it. But the indifference
449 II, 1 | highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only
450 I, 12| sovereignly good and the fountain of truth, but that some
451 IV, 4 | myself as coming from God, Fr. ), and turn wholly to him,
452 I, 1 | since I have opportunely freed my mind from all cares and
453 II, 11| piece of wax; it is quite fresh, having been but recently
454 VI, 13| from the union and apparent fusion of mind and body. ~
455 IV, 17| I deem that I have not gained little by this day's meditation,
456 II, 11| flowers from which it was gathered; its color, figure, size,
457 VI, 7 | two others of very wide generality: the first of them was that
458 Syn, 5 | corporeal nature, taken generically, a new demonstration is
459 Ded | FACULTY OF THEOLOGY OF PARIS ~GENTLEMEN, ~
460 II, 10| withdrawn it from these gently and opportunely and fixed
461 Syn, 2 | to that in use among the geometers, viz., to premise all upon
462 Ded, 2 | God (for since faith is a gift of God, the same Being who
463 I, 4 | made of clay, their body of glass, or that they are gourds?
464 II, 5 | question, I should insensibly glide into others, and these more
465 II, 1 | might transport the entire globe from the place it occupied
466 Ded, 5 | of the subject, and the glory of God, to which all this
467 III, 6 | for, whether I imagine a goat or chimera, it is not less
468 V, 11| to conceive two or more gods of this kind; and it being
469 Ded, 2 | and by what way, without going out of ourselves, God may
470 I, 4 | greatest poverty; or clothed in gold] and purple when destitute
471 III, 38| possesses in himself all the goods after which I aspire and
472 I, 4 | glass, or that they are gourds? I should certainly be not
473 I, 4 | clothed in a winter dressing gown, that I hold in my hands
474 IV, 8 | a reason, is the lowest grade of liberty, and manifests
475 III, 26| to prevent it from thus gradually increasing to infinity,
476 IV, 6 | whose causes transcend the grasp of my mind: and this consideration
477 VI, 15| mind; that in a white or green body there is the same whiteness
478 VI, 15| is the same whiteness or greenness which I perceive; that in
479 II, 5 | ether, spread through my grosser parts. As regarded the body,
480 II, 11| increases, it becomes liquid, it grows hot, it can hardly be handled,
481 I, 12| suspend my judgment ], and guard with settled purpose against
482 IV, 1 | 1. I HAVE been habituated these bygone days to detach
483 IV, 16| acquire in this way the habitude of not erring. ~
484 Syn, 2 | not able to conceive the half of a mind, as we can of
485 Pre, 1 | what way I should afterward handle them; for these questions
486 I, 1 | mind from all cares and am happily disturbed by no passions],
487 II, 11| to the sight ); it is hard, cold, easily handled; and
488 VI, 17| its malady and do itself harm, as it is natural for it,
489 III, 10| that they are not always in harmony with my will, so likewise
490 III, 1 | ignorant of many, -- who loves, hates], wills, refuses, who imagines
491 II, 13| see from the window beyond hats and cloaks that might cover
492 VI, 15| nature, as the quality of heaviness, and the like, of which
493 I, 1 | delayed so long that I should henceforth consider I was doing wrong
494 | hereafter
495 | herein
496 II, 10| clearness and distinctness than heretofore. But, nevertheless, it still
497 II, 3 | possessed senses or a body; I hesitate, however, for what follows
498 III, 7 | appears to me that sirens, hippogryphs, and the like, are inventions
499 Ded, 2 | xiii., where it is said, Howbeit they are not to be excused;
500 Ded, 6 | for mindful not only of my humanity, but chiefly also of my
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