René Descartes quotes

I think, therefore I am. (René Descartes)
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
René Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
René Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
René Descartes
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
René Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
René Descartes
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
René Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
René Descartes
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
René Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
René Descartes
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. (René Descartes)
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
René Descartes
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
René Descartes
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
René Descartes
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
René Descartes
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
René Descartes
The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
René Descartes
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
René Descartes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
René 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.
René Descartes
Because reason... is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us... (René Descartes)
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
René Descartes
He who hid well, lived well.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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.
René Descartes