Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it

Quote by Rene Descartes

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

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

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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...

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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...

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.

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...

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of...

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of...

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been...

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been...

I think; therefore I am.

I think; therefore I am.

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and...

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and...

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.