Famous Quotes by Rene Descartes

Below are famous quotes by Rene Descartes - French mathematician & philosopher (1596 - 1650).

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

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

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

I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

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.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

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