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Rene Descartes Quotes

French - Mathematician | March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Talking Almost Like Those Travelling

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Light Run Why Always See Out

Everything is self-evident.

Everything Self-Evident

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

Power Thoughts Nothing Own Our

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Government Better Laws State Those

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.

Hope Me Judge Discovery Judge Me

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Dreams Sleep I Am Same Things Awake

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

Science Problems Problem Rule Other

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Knowledge Alone Understanding Said

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Joy Worth Genuine More Sorrow Than

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Power True Follow Most Our Ought

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Confidence Place Never Complete Been

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