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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Descartes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Descartes

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Descartes

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Descartes

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes

Everything is self-evident.
Descartes

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Descartes

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Descartes

I think therefore I am.
Descartes

 

 

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