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Quotation from Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
“for the mind is so intimately dependent upon the condition and relation of the organs of the body, that if any means can ever be found to render men wiser and more ingenious than hitherto, I believe that it is in medicine they must be sought for”
Discourse on Method, Part VI, trans. John Veitch (19th century)
Descartes names health as the first of life's goods and medicine as the route to improving the mind itself.
Citation: "for the mind is so intimately dependent upon the condition and relation of the organs of the body, that if any means can ever be found to render men wiser and more ingenious than hitherto, I believe that it is in medicine they must be sought for" — Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, Part VI, trans. John Veitch (19th century). (id discourse-on-method-q13)
Portrait: Portrait of the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650), After Frans Hals, Public domain.
