23 Quotations by Rene Descartes
- 1. An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou ...

- 2. Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)

- 3. Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

- 4. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

- 5. Everything is self-evident.

- 6. Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

- 7. Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself s ...

- 8. I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am ...

- 9. I think, therefore I am.

- 10. I think; therefore I am.

- 11. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt ...

- 12. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

- 13. It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

- 14. It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceiv ...

- 15. Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre ...

- 16. One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one ...

- 17. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt ...

- 18. The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

- 19. The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries w ...

- 20. There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or anot ...

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