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Cannot 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…
- There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it.
- For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
- Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably…
- Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
- 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…
- In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the…
- 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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