Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
I think; therefore I am. Rene Descartes
I think; therefore I am.
. . .to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless. Rene Descartes
. . .to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. Rene Descartes
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. Rene Descartes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Rene Descartes
I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. Rene Descartes
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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 senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
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
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.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.) Rene Descartes
Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. Rene Descartes
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Rene Descartes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
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