The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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

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

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
Rene Descartes

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Rene Descartes