Rene Descartes Quotes

When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation

I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.

He who hid well, lived well.

But 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.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

One should never judge anything unless it is known

That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.