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Rene Descartes (Philosopher)

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
— Rene Descartes mind
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
— Rene Descartes books
I think; therefore I am.
— Rene Descartes think
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
— Rene Descartes time
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
— Rene Descartes light
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
— Rene Descartes men
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
— Rene Descartes mind
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
— Rene Descartes world
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
— Rene Descartes mind
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
— Rene Descartes law
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
— Rene Descartes mind
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 knowledge
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
— Rene Descartes you
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
— Rene Descartes soul
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
— Rene Descartes power
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
— Rene Descartes joy
Everything is self-evident.
— Rene Descartes self
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
— Rene Descartes dreams
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
— Rene Descartes think
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
— Rene Descartes hope
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
— Rene Descartes wit
Original Latin: Veritatem inquirenti, semel in vita de omnibus, quantum fieri potest, esse dubitandum
— René Descartes
More closely translated as: but in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.Note: Mais is French for but and the but in my opinion comes from the context of the original conversation. apud me omnia fiunt Mathematicè in Natura is in latin.
— René Descartes nature
Note: Mais is French for but and the but in my opinion comes from the context of the original conversation. apud me omnia fiunt Mathematicè in Natura is in latin.
— René Descartes conversation
Variant translation: 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 life

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