Dogmatismo Descartes Quotes

I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind. ~ Rene Descartes

One should never judge anything unless it is known. ~ Rene Descartes

Doubt is the origin of wisdom ~ Rene Descartes

It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once. ~ Rene Descartes

Nothing can be imagined which is too strange or incredible to have been said by some philosopher. ~ Rene Descartes

Instead of René Descartes' famous "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), I propose "Communico ergo sum," (I communicate, therefore I exist") as the philosophical proof of man's existence. ~ Rene Descartes

To live well, one must live unseen. ~ Rene Descartes

But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be. ~ Rene Descartes

We must in the end acknowledge the infirmity of our nature ~ Rene Descartes

Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.) ~ Rene Descartes

So that there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned, ~ Rene Descartes

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation ~ Rene Descartes

Wonder is the first of all the passions. ~ Rene Descartes

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible. ~ Rene Descartes

The only secure knowledge is that I exist. ~ Rene Descartes

I think, therefore I am" vs. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. ~ Rene Descartes

For 'tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well. ~ Rene Descartes

There is nothing more ancient than the truth. ~ Rene Descartes

He lives well who is well hidden. ~ Rene Descartes

He cannot be a deceiver, since the light of nature teaches us that fraud and deception necessarily proceed from some defect. ~ Rene Descartes

to live well you must live
unseen ~ Rene Descartes

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

If I find some reason for doubt in each of my beliefs, that will be enough to reject all of them. ~ Rene Descartes

The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice. ~ Rene Descartes

Man, being finite in nature can only have knowledge perfectness of which is limited. ~ Rene Descartes

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

To attain the truth in life, we must discard all the ideas we were taught. ~ Rene Descartes

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. ~ Rene Descartes

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them? ~ Rene Descartes

He who hid well, lived well. ~ Rene Descartes

I am thinking, therefore I exist. ~ Rene Descartes

Nothing comes out of nothing. ~ Rene Descartes

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves. ~ Rene Descartes

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. ~ Rene Descartes

Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best. ~ Rene Descartes

The perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them. ~ Rene Descartes

Nature teaches me that so many other bodies exist around mine of which some are to be avoided, some sought after. ~ Rene Descartes

Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them. ~ Rene Descartes

Those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it. ~ Rene Descartes

There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it. ~ Rene Descartes

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments. ~ Rene Descartes

It is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it. ~ Rene Descartes

...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life. ~ Rene Descartes

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation ~ Rene Descartes

Nothing is made from nothing. ~ Rene Descartes

I think; therefore I am. ~ Rene Descartes

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. ~ Rene Descartes

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ~ Rene Descartes

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. ~ Rene Descartes

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. ~ Rene Descartes

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. ~ Rene Descartes

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics. ~ Rene Descartes

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ~ Rene Descartes

On the other hand, I compared the disquisitions of the ancient moralists to very towering and magnificent palaces with no better foundation than sand and mud: ~ Rene Descartes

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

The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing. ~ Rene Descartes

Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body. ~ Rene Descartes

I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers. ~ Rene Descartes

One needs to know what thought is, what existence is and what certainty is. ~ Rene Descartes

To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain. ~ Rene Descartes

It indicates where the problem lies for Descartes. It lies in other people. ~ Paul C. Vitz

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. ~ Rene Descartes

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf. ~ Rene Descartes

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis. ~ Rene Descartes

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. ~ Rene Descartes

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world. ~ Rene Descartes

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking. ~ Rene Descartes

Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.

Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris ~ Rene Descartes

Science is practical philosophy. ~ Rene Descartes

Reason is nothing without imagination. ~ Rene Descartes

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. ~ Rene Descartes

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

("I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to do the thinking. ~ Rene Descartes

It is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once. ~ Rene Descartes

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. ~ Rene Descartes

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

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit.
(to live well is to live concealed) ~ Rene Descartes

Thereafter, I showed how the greatest part of the matter of this chaos must, in accordance with these laws, dispose and arrange itself in such a way as to present the appearance of heavens; ~ Rene Descartes

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 the increasing discovery of my own ignorance ~ Rene Descartes

Certainly no one can deny that we have such an idea of God in ourselves unless they think that there is no knowledge at all of God in human minds. ~ Rene Descartes

But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses. ~ Rene Descartes

How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses? ~ Rene Descartes

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things ... ~ Rene Descartes

Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company. ~ Rene Descartes

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. ~ Rene Descartes

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless. ~ Rene Descartes

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. ~ Rene Descartes

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing. ~ Rene Descartes

Moreover, I am aware that most of the irreligious deny the existence of God, and the distinctness of the human soul from the body, for no other reason than because these points, as they allege, have never as yet been demonstrated. ~ Rene Descartes

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something. ~ Rene Descartes

All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment ~ Rene Descartes

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction. ~ Rene Descartes

Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them. ~ Rene Descartes

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger. ~ Rene Descartes

To paraphrase Descartes again: "I think; therefore I have no access to the level where I sum. ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ~ Rene Descartes

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions. ~ Rene Descartes

The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake. ~ Rene Descartes

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. ~ Rene Descartes

I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise. ~ Rene Descartes