Rene Descartes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least…

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly…

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use…

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare…

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of…

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

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which…

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

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

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that…

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to…

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone…