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| René Descartes
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Cogito, ergo sum (I think; therefore I am) Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves. Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears |
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