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Only Quotes by Rene Descartes
- The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
- It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."
- 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…
- Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.
- I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only…
- As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements…
- I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate…
- Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only…
- 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…
- Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its…
- 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…
- It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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