In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
-
-
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTES -
When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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 -
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 -
The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTES -
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTES -
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTES -
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTES -
I think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTES -
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTES -
There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTES -
He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTES -
Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
RENE DESCARTES -
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTES -
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTES