To live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
-
-
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTES -
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTES -
With me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTES -
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTES -
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTES -
Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTES -
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
RENE DESCARTES -
It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTES -
I think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTES -
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTES -
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTES -
Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTES -
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTES -
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTES -
So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
RENE DESCARTES -
The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTES -
To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
RENE DESCARTES -
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTES -
Masked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTES -
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTES -
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTES -
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
RENE DESCARTES -
But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTES -
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTES -
I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
RENE DESCARTES -
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTES