I think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESIf 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 DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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 DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESWhen I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESFor 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 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 DESCARTESBut what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESI desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESMind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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