“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.”
― Rene Descartes
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"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."
― Rene Descartes
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"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
― Rene Descartes |
“Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.”
― Rene Descartes
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“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”
― Rene Descartes
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“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.”
― Rene Descartes
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"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
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"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."
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"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
― Rene Descartes
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“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
― Rene Descartes
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"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."
― Rene Descartes |
"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."
― Rene Descartes |
"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."
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"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
― Rene Descartes
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“If it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement .”
― Rene Descartes
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