In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course … - René Descartes

" "
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

René Descartes

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About René Descartes

René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650) was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. He is known for his influential arguments for substance dualism, where mind and body are considered to have distinct essences, one being characterized by thought, the other by spatial extension. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics." He is also known as Cartesius.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Descartes • Cartesius • Renatus Cartesius

All quotes from René Descartes Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like René Descartes:

Benedictus de Spinoza Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Immanuel Kant Michel de Montaigne Albert Einstein

Additional quotes by René Descartes

thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.

I resolv’d to faign, that all those things which ever entred into my Minde, were no more true, then the illusions of my dreams.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. - René Descartes

About René Descartes

Also Known As

Limited Time Offer

Additional quotes by René Descartes

Advanced Search Filters