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"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes. |
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"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."
- Rene Descartes. |
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"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
- Rene Descartes. |
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"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts."
- Rene Descartes. |
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"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
- Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637. |
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"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."
- Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637. |
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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
- Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637. |
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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
- Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637. |
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"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
- Rene Descartes, 'Meditations'. |