Most Famous Rene Descartes Quotes

Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician. He was born on 31 March 1596 in Stockholm in Sweden. He was interested in metaphysics, epistemology, mathematician, physics, and cosmology. He is famous for geometry and algebra. Descartes has been heralded as the first time, modern philosopher. He guided by many philosophers like Plato, Spinoza, Leibniz, John Locke, Nicolas, Issac Newton, Antoine Arnauld, Jacques-Bossuet, Edmund Husserl, Noam Chomsky, Kant. He rejected two times first, he rejected the splitting of corporeal sub-stand into the matter and foam, Second, he rejected any appeal to final ends in explaining natural phenomena. He developed a metaphysical dualism. His best-known philosophical statement is "I think, therefore I am", found in Descartes on the method. He is known as the father of analytical geometry.

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"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterward to solve other problems."-Rene Descartes

"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare." -Rene Descartes

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

"It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well." -Rene Descartes

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

"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense can not reach it." -Rene Descartes

"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." -Rene Descartes

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

"Except for our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." -Rene Descartes

"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow." -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." -Rene Descartes

"Traveling is almost like talking with those of other centuries." -Rene Descartes

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

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." -Rene Descartes

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

"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable." -Rene Descartes

"One can't conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another." -Rene Descartes

"Everything is self-evident." -Rene Descartes

"I think; therefore I am." -Rene Descartes

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

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say." -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 desire to live in peace and continue the life I have begun under the motto to live well you must live unseen." -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

"Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thinking so as to make them clear and intelligence will always be best able to persuade others of what they say." -Rene Descartes

"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made, but I just keep pushing." -Rene Descartes

"For the very fact that knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain arguments for its imperfection." -Rene Descartes