Rene Descartes - Best Quotes

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.

Good

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Good

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Dreams

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

Rene Descartes

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

Amazing

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

Rene Descartes

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

Loneliness

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

The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Author: Rene Descartes

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.

The senses deceive from time to time and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

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

When it is not in our power to follow what is true we ought to follow what is most probable.

Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

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

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

The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.