Quotes by : René Descartes

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also....

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood,....

And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the....

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range....

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.....

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept....

The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts....

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent....