1637 · Skopia

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Philosophical literature

I think, therefore I am.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 9.1

Religious literature

Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needle's point?

William Chillingworth

1637

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature

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.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 5.4

Philosophical literature

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.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

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

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 2.1

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

1637

★ 2.0

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

1637

★ 1.9