Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. – Rene Descartes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. – Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. – Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. – Rene Descartes
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. – Rene Descartes
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. – Rene Descartes
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. – Rene Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. – Rene Descartes
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. – Rene Descartes
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. – Rene Descartes
