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Rene Descartes Quotes

Rene Descartes quotes about thinking

French Mathematician March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650

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They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it, in relation to eternity, that they view the events of the world as we do those of a play. Rene Descartes
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. Rene Descartes
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. Rene Descartes
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. Rene Descartes
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.(English: "I doubt, therefore I..."
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") 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
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "To know what people really think, pay attention to what they..."
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am."
I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one..."
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)"
Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "I think; therefore I am."
I think; therefore I am. 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

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