Rene Descartes quotes

" Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. " # Simplicity

" It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well. " # Mind

" Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. " # Problems

" The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries. " # Books - Reading # Conversation # Past

" In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. " # Learning # Action # Self-improvement

" Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. " # Power

" The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. " # Virtue # Vice # Mind

" Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. " # Insults # Forgiveness # Love

" To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. " # Behavior

" Cogito, ergo, sum. (I think therefore I am.) " # Fools and Foolishness