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Letter "R" » Rene Descartes Quotes
«Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Doubt,
Existence,
Philosophy,
Reason,
Thought
| Keywords:
Cogito, ergo, sum
«It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence,
Mind,
Talent,
Thinking
| Keywords:
main
«If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
As Far, as far as possible, seeker
«The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
deceive, deceived, from time to time, prudent, senses, the senses, wholly
«I think; therefore I am.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Philosophy,
Thinking
| Keywords:
therefore
«The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
centuries, conversation, finest, mind reading, reading, The Finest
«It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Hate,
Love
| Keywords:
All Good Things, scheme, scheming
«I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
accustom, accustomed, imagine, lunatics
«An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
blow, optimist, pessimist
«Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
common sense, distributed, distributes, Distributing, fairly
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