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One Quotes by Rene Descartes
- 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…
- I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
- These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led…
- Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than…
- Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation
- Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
- 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…
- There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
- I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I…
- Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even…
- 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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