René Descartes Quotes

Tüm yöntem aklın birtakım gerçeklere varmak için çabasını yönlendirmek zorunda olduğu konuların sırasına ve konumuna dayanır. Bunu sürdürebilmek için güçlük içeren ve muğlak önermeleri aşamalı olarak daha basite indirgemek, sonra da bunların sezgisinden hareket ederek aynı şekilde diğer önermelerin bilgisine varmak gerekir.

Those in whom the faculty of reason is predominant, and who most skillfully dispose their thoughts with a view to render them clear and intelligible, are always the best able to persuade others of the truth of what they lay down, though they should speak only in the language of Lower Brittany, and be wholly ignorant of the rules of rhetoric; and those whose minds are stored with the most agreeable fancies, and who can give expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony, are still the best poets, though unacquainted with the art of poetry.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

...it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us...

I think; therefore I am.

ينبغي لي إذا أردت الإهتداء الى امر ثابت أكيد في العلوم، ان امتنع عن تصديق ما يمكن الشك فيه، امتناعي عن تصديق ما يتضح فيه الخطأ اتضاحًا شديدًا.

It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their own country.

I would like those who are not at all versed in anatomy to take the trouble, before reading this, to have the heart of some large animal that has lungs dissected in their presence (for such a heart is in all respects sufficiently similar to that of a man), and to be shown the two chambers or cavities that are in it.

One needs to know what thought is, what existence is and what certainty is.

Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects

I am, I exist” is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind.

Je pense, donc je suis.

I esteemed Eloquency highly, and was in raptures with poesy; but I thought that both were gifts of nature rather than fruits of study. Those in whom the faculty of Reason is predominant, and who most skillfully dispose their thoughts with a view to render them clear and intelligible, are always the best able to persuade others of the truth of what they lay down, though they should speak only in the language of Lower Brittany, and be wholly ignorant of the rules of Rhetoric; and those whose minds are stored with the most agreeable fancies, and who can give expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony, are still the best poets, though unacquainted with the Art of Poetry.

The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.