The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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 DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESWhen 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 desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
RENE DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESAll that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESYou just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
RENE DESCARTES