Rene Descartes famous quotes

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
-- Rene Descartes

#Inspirational #Spiritual #Attitude

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes

#Inspirational #Education #Teaching

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

#Encouragement #Philosophical #Planning

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

#Life #Truth #Real

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

#Book #Inspiration #Beer

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

#Success #Witty #Humorous

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
-- Rene Descartes

#Knowledge

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
-- Rene Descartes

#Math #Two #Understanding

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement ...
-- Rene Descartes

#Judgement #May #Judgment

Everything is self-evident.
-- Rene Descartes

#Reality #Self

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
-- Rene Descartes

#Thinking #Common Sense #Needs

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
-- Rene Descartes

#Law #States

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
-- Rene Descartes

#Dream #Sleep #Imagine

With me, everything turns into mathematics.
-- Rene Descartes

#Math #Mathematics #Turns

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
-- Rene Descartes

#Running #Mind #Progress

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
-- Rene Descartes

#Wisdom #Book #Reading

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

#Learning #Caring #Order

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
-- Rene Descartes

#Travel #Journey #Talking

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

#Desire #Unseen #Motto

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
-- Rene Descartes

#Math #Men #Numbers

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
-- Rene Descartes

#Perseverance #Mistake #Women

Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.
-- Rene Descartes

#Believe #Laughing #Community

Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
-- Rene Descartes

#Judging #Mind #Individual

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
-- Rene Descartes

#Trust #Hype #Perception

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
-- Rene Descartes

#Philosophical

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
-- Rene Descartes

#Running #Attitude #Optimistic

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

#Power #Thinking #Aries

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
-- Rene Descartes

#Joy #Sorrow #Genuine

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
-- Rene Descartes

#World

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
-- Rene Descartes

#Illumination #Light #Soul

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
-- Rene Descartes

#Dream #Life Is #Certain