Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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.
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When 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…
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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