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 DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
-
-
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTES -
I think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTES -
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTES -
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTES -
Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTES -
Masked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTES -
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
RENE DESCARTES -
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTES -
One should never judge anything unless it is known
RENE DESCARTES -
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTES -
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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 -
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTES -
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTES -
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTES