The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – 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
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. – 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