Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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 DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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 DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESThe first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESNothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESMasked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESLet 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