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René Descartes

Was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.

René Descartes

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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 those who have deceived us even once.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
I think; therefore I am.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.