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

Quote by Rene Descartes

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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the...

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the...

Everything is self-evident.

Everything is self-evident.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said...

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said...

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be...

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be...

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I...

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I...

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use...

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use...

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to...

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to...

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly...

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly...

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of...

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of...

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by...

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by...

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it...

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it...

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist...

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist...

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to...

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to...

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which...

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which...

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks...

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks...

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least...

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least...

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone...

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone...

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the...

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the...