Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes
René Descarteswas a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. He spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch Republic...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth31 March 1596
CityIndre-et-Loire, France
Rene Descartes quotes about
powerful independent intelligent
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists
philosophical
De omnibus dubitandum
desire unseen motto
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen
knowledge knows
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
success witty humorous
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
ignorance discovery errors
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance
lasts opinion reservations
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
running attitude optimistic
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
wells
We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
sunshine diversity experience
Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.
passion mind body
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
passion magic firsts
Wonder is the first of all the passions.
memories judging perception
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.
wells
He who hid well, lived well.