The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESCommon sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTESFor I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESNothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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