Top 15 René Descartes Quotes

I think; therefore I am.

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

Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)

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.

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

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

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

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Masked, I advance.