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Author - René Descartes
Quotes by : René Descartes
reading books
...reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries....
rule
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
philosophy
Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue....
truth
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.....
curiosity
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored....
control
For, occupied incessantly with the consideration of the limits prescribed to their power by nature, they....
books
that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were,....
mathematics
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.....
mathematics
But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
descartes
Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by....
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