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…
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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