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The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts. — Rene Descartes · 1637Common sense1 quote
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. — Rene Descartes · 1637Existence of God1 quote
I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea. — Rene Descartes · 1641Genius1 quote
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues. — Rene Descartes · 1637God1 quote
I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea. — Rene Descartes · 1641God and man1 quote
I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea. — Rene Descartes · 1641Nature of man1 quote
I think, therefore I am. — Rene Descartes · 1637New ideas1 quote
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes · 1637Nothingness1 quote
It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing. — Rene Descartes · 1644Power of literature1 quote
The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts. — Rene Descartes · 1637Questioning one's beliefs1 quote
I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. — Rene Descartes · 1641