“...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am) — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“I am in doubt as to the propriety of making my first meditations in the place above mentioned matter of discourse; for… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,… — René Descartes Copy Share
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they… — René Descartes Copy Share
“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding… — René Descartes Copy Share
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call… — René Descartes Copy Share
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the… — René Descartes Copy Share
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
It is only intelligence that is divided equally between people because everybody thinks he/she is enough wise — René Descartes Copy Share
