Rene Descartes Quotes And Sayings

René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. He is credited as the father of analytical geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry, used in the discovery of infinitesimal calculus and analysis. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the scientific revolution.

I Think; Therefore I Am.

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When It Is Not In Our Power To Follow What Is True, We Ought To Follow What Is Most Probable.

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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 (11) - Common Sense Is The Most Fairly Dist... - QuotesCommon 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.

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Nothing Is More Fairly Distributed Than Common Sense: No One Thinks He Needs More Of It Than He Already Has.

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Illusory Joy Is Often Worth More Than Genuine Sorrow.

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Except Our Own Thoughts, There Is Nothing Absolutely In Our Power.

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Travelling Is Almost Like Talking With Those Of Other Centuries.

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Perfect Numbers Like Perfect Men Are Very Rare.

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It Is Only Prudent Never To Place Complete Confidence In That By Which We Have Even Once Been Deceived.

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Whenever Anyone Has Offended Me, I Try To Raise My Soul So High That The Offense Cannot Reach It.

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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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The Reading Of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With The Finest Minds Of Past Centuries.

Rene Descartes Quotes (22) - The Reading Of All Good Books Is Lik... - QuotesThe Reading Of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With The Finest Minds Of Past Centuries.

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An Optimist May See A Light Where There Is None, But Why Must The Pessimist Always Run To Blow It Out?

Rene Descartes Quotes (21) - An Optimist May See A Light Where Th... - QuotesAn Optimist May See A Light Where There Is None, But Why Must The Pessimist Always Run To Blow It Out?

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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 (2) - I Hope That Posterity Will Judge Me K... - QuotesI 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.

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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 (20) - The Two Operations Of Our Understand... - QuotesThe Two Operations Of Our Understanding, Intuition And Deduction, On Which Alone We Have Said We Must Rely In The Acquisition Of Knowledge.

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Everything Is Self-evident.

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Each Problem That I Solved Became A Rule, Which Served Afterwards To Solve Other Problems.

Rene Descartes Quotes (23) - Each Problem That I Solved Became A ... - QuotesEach Problem That I Solved Became A Rule, Which Served Afterwards To Solve Other Problems.

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A State Is Better Governed Which Has Few Laws, And Those Laws Strictly Observed.

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The First Precept Was Never To Accept A Thing As True Until I Knew It As Such Without A Single Doubt.

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The Greatest Minds Are Capable Of The Greatest Vices As Well As Of The Greatest Virtues.

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There Is Nothing So Strange And So Unbelievable That It Has Not Been Said By One Philosopher Or Another.

Rene Descartes Quotes (4) - There Is Nothing So Strange And So Un... - QuotesThere Is Nothing So Strange And So Unbelievable That It Has Not Been Said By One Philosopher Or Another.

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It Is Not Enough To Have A Good Mind; The Main Thing Is To Use It Well.

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In Order To Improve The Mind, We Ought Less To Learn, Than To Contemplate.

Rene Descartes Quotes (28) - In Order To Improve The Mind, We Oug... - QuotesIn Order To Improve The Mind, We Ought Less To Learn, Than To Contemplate.

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Divide Each Difficulty Into As Many Parts As Is Feasible And Necessary To Resolve It.

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I Am Indeed Amazed When I Consider How Weak My Mind Is And How Prone To Error.

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The Senses Deceive From Time To Time, And It Is Prudent Never To Trust Wholly Those Who Have Deceived Us Even Once.

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I Am Accustomed To Sleep And In My Dreams To Imagine The Same Things That Lunatics Imagine When Awake.

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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.

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