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

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

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

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quotation: When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. Rene Descartes

When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.Rene Descartes (1596-1650) Discuss

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René Descartes (1596)

René Descartes was a French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher who is considered the father of modern philosophy. Aiming to apply the rigor of mathematics to all fields of human knowledge, Descartes discards the authoritarian system of the scholastics and begins with universal doubt. His methodology was a major influence in the transition from medieval science and philosophy to the modern era. What is thought to be the meaning of his most famous statement, “Cogito ergo sum”? More… Discuss

quotation: The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

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quotation: Rene Descartes (about dreams)

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

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

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

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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

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Quotation: Rene Descartes on philosophies

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

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