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Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
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
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes, ‘Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes, ‘Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes, ‘Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes, ‘Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes, ‘Meditations'

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