Quotes By Author: Rene Descartes

“The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.”

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”

“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”

“Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.”

“Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)”

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen”