224 Quotes by Rene Descartes

There is nothing so strange or so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone 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

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even that those who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger meas

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.