The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
RENE DESCARTESThe dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
RENE DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESNothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESMind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESI suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTES