Masked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTESI suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
-
-
There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTES -
When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTES -
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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 -
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 -
Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTES -
Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTES -
I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTES -
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.
RENE DESCARTES -
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTES -
The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTES -
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTES -
But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
RENE DESCARTES -
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTES