224 Quotes by Rene Descartes

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind’s eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.

I think therefore I am.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

Reason is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Wonder is the first of all passion.

The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries— in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.

The chief use of wisdom lies in its teaching us to be masters of our passions and to control them with such skill that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and even become a source of joy.