Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
-
-
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTES -
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTES -
He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTES -
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTES -
For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
RENE DESCARTES -
If 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 DESCARTES -
The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTES -
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 DESCARTES -
There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTES -
Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTES -
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTES -
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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 -
When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTES