René Descartes Quotes
Best 6 Quotes by René Descartes
“All is to be doubted.”
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must a pessimist always rush to blow it out?”
“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe they are in good company.”
“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.”
“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
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“There is no greatness without a continual solicitation to madness which, while it must be overcome, must never be completely lacking. One might profit by classifying men in this respect. The one kind are those in whom there is no madness at all and are so-called men of intellect whose works and deeds are nothing but cold works and deeds of the intellect.
But where there is no madness, there is, to be sure, also no real, active, living intellect. For wherein is intellect to prove itself but in the conquest, mastery, and ordering of madness?”
