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
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. – Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. – Rene Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – Rene Descartes
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they cant find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. – Elizabeth Gilbert