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Best René Descartes Quotes. 1. “Conquer yourself rather than the world.” 2. “I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.” 3. “The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.” 4. “Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.” 5.
380 quotes from René Descartes: 'I think; therefore I am.', 'The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.', and 'Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) '
24 mar 2023 · René Descartes played his part in the world as a man in a mask. The phrase is his own. It implied no conscious duplicity but a certain apartness rendering him incapable of taking his share unreservedly in the game of life.
Doubt: I might be dreaming. What a brilliant piece of reasoning! As if I were not a man who sleeps at night and often has all the same experiences while asleep as madmen do when awake—indeed sometimes even more improbable ones.
17 gru 2009 · Summary. These men will be composed, as we are, of a soul and a body. And I must describe for you first the body on its own; and then the soul, again on its own; and finally I must show you how these two natures would have to be joined and united so as to constitute men resembling us.
Descartes begins his first Meditation by laying out the reasons why he is choosing to doubt all his beliefs, and the method by which he will go about doing it. Some years ago I was struck by how many false things I had believed, and by how doubtful was the
