Rene Descartes
12 quotes
Biography
"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 greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."
"I think therefore I am."