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All Quotes by author - Rene Descartes

" An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? "

" A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. "

" 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. "

" Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. "

" Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. "

" Everything is self-evident. "

" Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. "

" I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. "

" I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. "

" In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. "

" I think; therefore I am. "

" It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. "

" It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. "

" Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. "

" One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. "

" Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. "

" The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. "

" The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. "

" The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. "

" There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. "

" The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. "

" The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. "

" Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. "

" Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. "

" When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. "

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