To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
-
-
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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 -
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTES -
For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
RENE DESCARTES -
I think; therefore I am.
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 -
All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTES -
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 -
The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTES -
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTES -
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTES -
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTES -
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTES -
Masked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTES -
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTES