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But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal, — Rene Descartes

I resolv'd to faign, that all those things which ever entred into my Minde, were no more true, then the illusions of my dreams. — Rene Descartes

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation — Rene Descartes

It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once. — Rene Descartes

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. — Rene Descartes

All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment — Rene Descartes

The only secure knowledge is that I exist. — Rene Descartes

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

Those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it. — Rene Descartes

Conquer yourself rather than the world. — Rene Descartes

The only thing that I know, is that I know nothing — Rene Descartes

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing. — Rene Descartes

For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection. — Rene Descartes

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

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

Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") — Rene Descartes

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes

Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.) — Rene Descartes

So that there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned, — Rene Descartes

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

I am thinking, therefore I exist. — Rene Descartes

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. — Rene Descartes

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes

With me, everything turns into mathematics. — Rene Descartes

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom. — Rene Descartes

The perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them. — Rene Descartes

Science is practical philosophy. — Rene Descartes

For 'tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well. — Rene Descartes

I think, therefore I am" vs. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. — Rene Descartes

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

If I find some reason for doubt in each of my beliefs, that will be enough to reject all of them. — Rene Descartes

to live well you must live
unseen — Rene Descartes

To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain. — Rene Descartes

It is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it. — Rene Descartes

The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing. — Rene Descartes

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say. — Rene Descartes

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless. — Rene Descartes

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

Booty Butt, Booty Butt, Booty Butt Cheeks — Rene Descartes

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

Everything is self-evident. — Rene Descartes

All is to be doubted. — Rene Descartes

Certainly no one can deny that we have such an idea of God in ourselves unless they think that there is no knowledge at all of God in human minds. — Rene Descartes

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

Nothing is made from nothing. — Rene Descartes

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. — Rene Descartes

I will follow this strategy until I discover something that is certain or, at least, until I discover that it is certain only that nothing is certain. — Rene Descartes

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. — Rene Descartes

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves. — Rene Descartes

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe. — Rene Descartes

He lives well who is well hidden. — Rene Descartes

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many. — Rene Descartes

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments. — Rene Descartes

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

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. — Rene Descartes

Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them. — Rene Descartes

I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am — Rene Descartes

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking. — Rene Descartes

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. — Rene Descartes

It appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn. — Rene Descartes

Wow. I'm twenty years old. Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry in his early twenties. Talk about pressure. — Anna Kay Akana

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

It is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes

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

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

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason. — Rene Descartes

One should never judge anything unless it is known. — Rene Descartes

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. — Rene Descartes

Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am) — Rene Descartes

One needs to know what thought is, what existence is and what certainty is. — Rene Descartes

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature. — Rene Descartes

Nothing comes out of nothing. — Rene Descartes

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf. — Rene Descartes

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. — Rene Descartes

How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses? — Rene Descartes

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them? — Rene Descartes

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing. — Rene Descartes

But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be. — Rene Descartes

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it." — Rene Descartes

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world. — Rene Descartes

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible. — Rene Descartes

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. — Rene Descartes

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation — Rene Descartes

Reason is nothing without imagination. — Rene Descartes

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. — Rene Descartes

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — Rene Descartes

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. — Rene Descartes

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

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger. — Rene Descartes

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

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. — Rene Descartes

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something. — Rene Descartes

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts. — Rene Descartes

Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind. — Rene Descartes

There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it. — Rene Descartes

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth. — Rene Descartes

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction. — Rene Descartes