“ I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes
“ When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. 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 senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. Rene Descartes
“ 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
“ 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
“ I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments. Rene Descartes
“ ...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause. Rene Descartes
“ Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it a… Rene Descartes
