When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — René Descartes
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. — René Descartes
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. — René Descartes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — René Descartes
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — René Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — René Descartes
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — René Descartes
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. — René Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. — René Descartes
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — René Descartes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — René Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt — René Descartes
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. — René Descartes
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. — René Descartes
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we — René Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. — René Descartes