An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down.
Rene Descartes
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes
I think; therefore I am.
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
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
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Type:
Mathematician
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1650
Nationality:
French |
