Quotes by : René Descartes

...reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries....

although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size....

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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must....

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored....

that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were,....

I revered our theology, and aspired as much as any one to reach heaven: but being given assuredly to....

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.....