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.


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

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I think; therefore I am.

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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. -Rene Descartes
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. . .to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless.

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

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

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