Tag: Rene Descartes
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
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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
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
Rene Descartes
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
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Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes
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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
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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.
Rene Descartes
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
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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
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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes