It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
-
-
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTES -
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTES -
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTES -
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 DESCARTES -
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach 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 -
Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTES -
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTES -
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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 -
With me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTES -
Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTES -
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTES -
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTES -
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTES