Rene Descartes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Rene Descartes quotes and sayings page 2 (mathematician). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 29 we have.
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.”
“Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.”
“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”
“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”
“I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.”
“Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.”
“I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.”
“A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.”
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”
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