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Been Quotes by Rene Descartes
- [About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my…
- Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to…
- Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
- In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the…
- Be that as it may, there is fixed in my mind a certain opinion of long [21] standing, namely that there exists a God who…
- By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists.…
- The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that…
- ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can…
- There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
- But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so…
- This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would…
- Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He…
- In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- 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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