About René Descartes

René Descartes
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic. Wikipedia
March 31, 1596, La Haye en Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, France
February 11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden
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René Descartes Quotes

Ex nihilo nihil fit.
~ René Descartes
Translated from Latin as "Nothing comes from nothing"
Nothing comes from nothing
~ René Descartes
Translated from Latin "Ex nihilo nihil fit"
De omnibus dubitandum
~ René Descartes
Translated as "All is to be doubted" or "Be suspicious of everything". Attributed to Rene Descartes. Also mentioned as Karl Marx's favorite motto.
[The] mechanism of our body is so constructed that simply by this gland's being moved in any way by the soul or by any other cause, it drives the surrounding spirits towards the pores of the brain, which direct them through the nerves to the muscles; and in this way the gland makes the spirits move the limbs.
~ René Descartes
Passions of the Soul (1649). Descartes believed that mind exerted control over the brain via pineal gland.
My view is that this gland is the principal seat of the soul, and the place in which all our thoughts are formed.
~ René Descartes
Man (1630-1633). Descartes believed that mind exerted control over the brain via pineal gland.
cogito, ergo sum
~ René Descartes
I think, therefore I exist.
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And so something that I thought I was seeing with my eyes is in fact grasped solely by the faculty of judgment which is in my mind.
~ René Descartes
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
~ René Descartes
Dubium sapientiae initium.
~ René Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
~ René Descartes
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
~ René Descartes
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.
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It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.
~ René Descartes
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
~ René Descartes
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Je pense, donc je suis.
~ René Descartes
Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
~ René Descartes
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
~ René Descartes
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
~ René Descartes
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
~ René Descartes
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
~ René Descartes
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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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