Rene Descartes Quotes (19 quotations)
1. An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? - Rene Descartes
2. At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior] - Rene Descartes
3. Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.) - Rene Descartes
4. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. - Rene Descartes
5. Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes
6. Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. - Rene Descartes
7. I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. - Rene Descartes
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 a man. - Rene Descartes
9. I think; therefore I am. - Rene Descartes
10. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes
11. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. - Rene Descartes
12. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes
13. It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. - Rene Descartes
14. One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. - Rene Descartes
15. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. - Rene Descartes
16. The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Rene Descartes
17. 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. - Rene Descartes
18. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - Rene Descartes
19. When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. - Rene Descartes
2. At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior] - Rene Descartes
3. Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.) - Rene Descartes
4. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. - Rene Descartes
5. Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes
6. Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. - Rene Descartes
7. I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. - Rene Descartes
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 a man. - Rene Descartes
9. I think; therefore I am. - Rene Descartes
10. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes
11. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. - Rene Descartes
12. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes
13. It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. - Rene Descartes
14. One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. - Rene Descartes
15. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. - Rene Descartes
16. The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Rene Descartes
17. 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. - Rene Descartes
18. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - Rene Descartes
19. When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. - Rene Descartes
