224 Quotes by Rene Descartes

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation.

De omnibus dubitandum.