One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been… — Rene Descartes

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

In the original French

Qu'on e sauroit rien imaginer de si étrange et si peu croyable, qu'il n'ait été dit par quelqu'un des philosophes.

Discourse on Method · 1637
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Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method, translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 2.
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Descartes, René [published anonymously]. Discours de la Méthode: Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences [Discourse on Method: To Conduct Reason Well, and Seek Truth in the Sciences]. Leiden, 1637, pt. 2.

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