Tag: Rene Descartes

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.

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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another

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Cogito, ergo sum.  (I think therefore I am.)

Rene Descartes