Wisdom Quotes by René Descartes

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

— Rene Descartes

[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

Science is practical philosophy.

— Rene Descartes

“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

“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

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

— Rene Descartes

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

Everything is self-evident.

— Rene Descartes

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

It is only intelligence that is divided equally between people because everybody thinks he/she is enough wise

— René Descartes