Rene Descartes Quotes
"I think, therefore I am."
"Everything is self-evident."
"Doubt is the origin of wisdom."
"Nothing comes out of nothing."
"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"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."
"Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have."
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