Quote: 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. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Everything is self-evident. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: I think therefore I am. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. [Rene Descartes]
Quote: The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. [Rene Descartes]