Quotes by : Rene Descartes

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must....

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.....

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

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

I think therefore I am.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.