"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
― Rene Descartes |
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
― Rene Descartes |
"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."
― Rene Descartes |
"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."
― Rene Descartes |
"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
― Rene Descartes |
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
― Rene Descartes
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
― Rene Descartes |
"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."
― Rene Descartes |
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
― Rene Descartes |
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
― Rene Descartes
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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
― Rene Descartes |
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
― Rene Descartes
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"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
― Rene Descartes |
"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
― Rene Descartes |
"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
― Rene Descartes |
“We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.”
― Rene Descartes
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"Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries."
― Rene Descartes
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"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."
― Rene Descartes |
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