Rene Descartes
8 quotations
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Everything is self-evident.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
I think therefore I am.