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Age of Enlightenment4 quotes
I think, therefore I am. — Rene Descartes · 1637The 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 · 1637I 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 · 1641It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing. — Rene Descartes · 1644