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Rene Descartes Quotes
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. - Rene Descartes Quotes
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? - Rene Descartes Quotes
Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.) - Rene Descartes Quotes
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. - Rene Descartes Quotes
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. - Rene Descartes Quotes
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. - Rene Descartes Quotes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. - Rene Descartes Quotes
Everything is self-evident. - Rene Descartes Quotes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. - Rene Descartes Quotes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. - Rene Descartes Quotes
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. - Rene Descartes Quotes
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. - Rene Descartes Quotes
I think; therefore I am. - Rene Descartes Quotes
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 Quotes
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. - Rene Descartes Quotes
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. - Rene Descartes Quotes
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes Quotes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes Quotes
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. - Rene Descartes Quotes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. - Rene Descartes Quotes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. - Rene Descartes Quotes
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. - Rene Descartes Quotes
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. - Rene Descartes Quotes
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Rene Descartes Quotes
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations. - Rene Descartes Quotes
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. - Rene Descartes Quotes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - Rene Descartes Quotes
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. - Rene Descartes Quotes
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 Quotes
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. - Rene Descartes Quotes
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