224 Quotes by Rene Descartes

De omnibus dubitandum. (Doubt everything.)

Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts tosuspect that it is merely a dream, and wants to go ondreaming rather than waking up, so I am content toslide back into my old opinions; I fear being shaken outof them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep maybe followed by hard labour when I wake, and that Ishall have to struggle not in the light but in theimprisoning darkness of the problems I have raised.

I think, therefore I am.

I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.

¿hay acaso algo más íntimo o más interior que el dolor?

我思う故に我あり

Cogito, ergo sum.

Masked, I advance.

We must in the end acknowledge the infirmity of our nature