Rene Descartes Quotes

Rene Descartes
French Mathematician
Born: Mar 31, 1596
Died: Feb 11, 1650
Another Been Doubt Never Nothing Strange
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes
Good Mind Enough Good Mind Main Main Thing Well Use Thing
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. Rene Descartes
Me Soul Offended Try High My Soul Reach Offense Whenever Anyone Cannot Raise
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. Rene Descartes
Life Truth You Doubt Once Possible Would Would-Be All Things Seeker Least Real As Far As After Far Your Things Necessary
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. Rene Descartes
Difficulty Resolve Feasible Divide Parts Many Each Necessary
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. Rene Descartes
Time Trust Deceived Once Those Never Prudent Deceive From Time To Time Senses Us Who Even Wholly
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes
Good Conversation Reading Past Minds Books Finest Like Centuries
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Rene Descartes
Light Pessimist Out Run Must See None Always Optimist Blow May Where Why
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
World Matters Sense Other Those Distributed More Habit He Most Fairly Than Common Common Sense Who Even Each Each One Satisfy Hardest Thing Thinks Desiring
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Rene Descartes
Thoughts Power Own Nothing Our Except Absolutely
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. Rene Descartes
Confidence Deceived Complete Once Only Never Been Prudent Place Which Even
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Rene Descartes
Needs Sense Nothing Distributed More No-One He Fairly Than Common Common Sense Thinks
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes
Dreams Am Same Accustomed Same Things Awake Things Lunatics Imagine Sleep
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
Hope Me Judge Will Others Pleasure Those Kindly Posterity Only Also Judge Me Leave Discovery Intentionally Which Explained Things
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. Rene Descartes
Amazing Mind Consider Indeed Weak Prone How Am Amazed Error
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Rene Descartes
Power Ought Our Follow True Most Probable
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes
First Single Doubt Never Knew True Until Accept Without Precept Thing
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
Alone Knowledge Understanding Our Must Intuition Rely Operations Said Which Acquisition Deduction Two
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes
Science Problem Problems Other Rule Solve Solved Became Which Afterwards Each Served
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. Rene Descartes
Strange Philosopher Implausible Conceive Another Said Been Anything Cannot

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