10 insightful quotes by rene descartes
- I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
- An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
- A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
- I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
- There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
- When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
- One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
- I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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