That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESMasked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESI desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
RENE DESCARTESSo far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
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 DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
RENE DESCARTES