224 Quotes by Rene Descartes

I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put – I think, therefore I am.

The only thing that I know, is that I know nothing.

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance.

Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this ‘I’ that ‘I’ know.

It’s the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: “I don’t really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it.”

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ’to live well you must live unseen.

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth, it will only make you miserable.