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Famous Rene Descartes Quotes
“A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
“I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.”
“Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.”
“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.”
“Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.”
“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?”
“The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.”
“We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.”
“When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.”
“For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.”
“Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation”
“And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.”