224 Quotes by Rene Descartes

I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

Wonder is the first of all the passions.

When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.

The only secure knowledge is that I exist.

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.