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True 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…
- Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
- Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from…
- 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…
- 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…
- Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for…
- 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…
- The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
- 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…
- What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I…
- Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly…
- When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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