Quotes de descartes ...

Quotes de Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. 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 In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. The Machine of heaven extends everywhere most fluid and simple, being divinely governed under a given law. I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. And thereby make ourselves (through the use of our minds), as it were, the lords and masters of nature. I suppose the body to be just a statue or a machine made of earth. I should like you to consider that these functions follow from the mere arrangement of the machine's organs every bit as naturally as the movements of a clock or other automaton follow from the arrangement of its counter-weights and wheels

• One of the statements above was not made by Descartes but was made before Descartes time. Which one is it? Who made it>
  
  What does he consider "truth"?

• How does he deal with uncertainty?

• What is the bias of Descartes?

Descartes Bias: first-person consciousness is more epistemically basic than empirical data-gathering.

Or maybe its just this: