The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTES A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
RENE DESCARTES When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTES Everything is self-evident.
RENE DESCARTES An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
RENE DESCARTES Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
RENE DESCARTES Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
RENE DESCARTES In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTES Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-en...
RENE DESCARTES When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
RENE DESCARTES There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or anot...
RENE DESCARTES To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTES I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but al...
RENE DESCARTES There may indeed be those who would prefer to deny the existence of a God so powerful, rather than b...
RENE DESCARTES It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTES If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt...
RENE DESCARTES Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTES I am accustomed to sleep, and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awa...
RENE DESCARTES Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars--namely, the opening of t...
RENE DESCARTES Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTES The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries w...
RENE DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
RENE DESCARTES To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTES Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)
RENE DESCARTES Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTES One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one ...
RENE DESCARTES The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we mus...
RENE DESCARTES I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awak...
RENE DESCARTES The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceive...
RENE DESCARTES I think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTES Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTES The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTES Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
RENE DESCARTES It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceiv...
RENE DESCARTES The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt...
RENE DESCARTES It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTES Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTES Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
RENE DESCARTES Thinking is another attribute of the soul; and here I discover what properly belongs to myself. This...
RENE DESCARTES The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
RENE DESCARTES Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.
(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)
RENE DESCARTES If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or si...
RENE DESCARTES Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed w...
RENE DESCARTES In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate
RENE DESCARTES I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly ...
RENE DESCARTES The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceive...
RENE DESCARTES Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it
RENE DESCARTES It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All go...
RENE DESCARTES At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on ...
RENE DESCARTES The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most...
RENE DESCARTES When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waki...
RENE DESCARTES There is nothing so strange or so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or anoth...
RENE DESCARTES Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
RENE DESCARTES When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable
RENE DESCARTES You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just ke...
RENE DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
RENE DESCARTES The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events fo...
RENE DESCARTES The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTES Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please...
RENE DESCARTES Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied wit...
RENE DESCARTES Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so...
RENE DESCARTES If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could...
RENE DESCARTES I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
RENE DESCARTES I think therefore I exist.
RENE DESCARTES The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greate...
RENE DESCARTES Explanations are relative in the sense that their validity always depends...on how the thing to be e...
RENE DESCARTES Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so...
RENE DESCARTES A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed
RENE DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
DESCARTES Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is...
RENé DESCARTES I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...
RENé DESCARTES I think; therefore I am.
RENé DESCARTES If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt...
RENé DESCARTES Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENé DESCARTES So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along ...
RENé DESCARTES Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
RENé DESCARTES And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it...
RENé DESCARTES Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its ra...
RENé DESCARTES The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENé DESCARTES ...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater al...
RENé DESCARTES ...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.
RENé DESCARTES With me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENé DESCARTES But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENé DESCARTES Masked, I advance.
RENé DESCARTES It cannot be denied that he RENé DESCARTES Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENé DESCARTES ...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.
RENé DESCARTES Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is,...
RENé DESCARTES Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
RENé DESCARTES It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceiv...
RENé DESCARTES [...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a lar...
RENé DESCARTES The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be c...
RENé DESCARTES For, occupied incessantly with the consideration of the limits prescribed to their power by nature, ...
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RENé DESCARTES ...it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even onc...
RENé DESCARTES Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I conti...
RENé DESCARTES At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opini...
RENé DESCARTES Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would ...
RENé DESCARTES For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort t...
RENé DESCARTES To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to...
RENé DESCARTES Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to
suspect that it is merely a dream, and wa...
RENé DESCARTES Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
RENE MAGRITTE The restaurant industry is brutal.
RENE REDZEPI The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in s...
RENE CASSIN A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
RENE BURRI I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.
RENE REDZEPI When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
RENE REDZEPI I had a system at blackjack.
RENE ANGELIL The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
RENE MAGRITTE Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to...
RENE DAUMAL You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just ke...
RENE MCPHERSON It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an i...
RENE DAUMAL In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
RENE CHAR There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever...
RENE RUSSO Mentoring is all about people -- it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it beco...
RENE CARAYOL Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words ar...
RENE DAUMAL Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I...
RENE DAUMAL It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
RENE COTY The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind ...
RENE MAGRITTE Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality ...
RENE DAUMAL When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eter...
RENE YASENEK I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, ...
RENE AUBERJONOIS I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclai...
RENE RICARD I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it'...
RENE RUSSO People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.
RENE REDZEPI As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply ...
RENE CASSIN The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
RENE DUBOS We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
RENE MAGRITTE If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
RENE MAGRITTE Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own...
RENE REDZEPI Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
RENE MAGRITTE I'm not crazy, I was abused.
I'm not shy, I'm protecting myself.
I'm not bitter, I'm spe...
RENE SMITH I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the mome...
RENE BURRI If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
RENE BURRI I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the fu...
RENE RICARD Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
RENE DAUMAL I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I lit...
RENE RUSSO In my experience with cancer, I was one of the lucky ones: diagnosed and treated by a qualified team...
RENE ANGELIL There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.
RENE REDZEPI My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.
RENE BURRI When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enl...
RENE REDZEPI At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Ni...
RENE AUBERJONOIS Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.
RENE REDZEPI Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used t...
RENE REDZEPI Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part...
RENE REDZEPI Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What i...
RENE DAUMAL One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, s...
RENE VEAUX How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was rev...
RENE CASSIN I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, ver...
RENE RIVKIN I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing imposs...
RENE RICARD forcibly raped her.
RENE ANGELIL The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assem...
RENE CASSIN In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly a...
RENE CASSIN In June 1972, I went with friends to see the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Forum. After the conc...
RENE RUSSO There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn t...
RENE REDZEPI The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new exp...
RENE BURRI I can only remember one case this year where we weren't able to transport someone through helicopter...
RENE PEREZ We are well over pace.
RENE PEREZ We responded to the balcony accident and an auto-pedestrian accident around the same time - at about...
RENE PEREZ Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. Celebrat...
RENE DUBOS More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
RENE DUBOS I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. ...
RENE RUSSO Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
RENE DUBOIS The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on th...
RENE VEAUX My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends mee...
RENE RUSSO He tried to console her, and it wasn't going his way.
RENE SALINAS To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being alw...
RENE MAGRITTE I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on...
RENE REDZEPI The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth...
RENE DENFELD I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts...
RENE DENFELD A few years ago it was considered chic to serve Beef Wellington; fortunately, like Napoleon, it met ...
RENE VEAUX It's not until you see your magnet at the bottom that you understand it. ... They can certainly feel...
RENE PORTLAND The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain catego...
RENE CASSIN The fire dwindles as sounds of the night dance upon the embers. ~ Rene Remington
RENE REMINGTON 10/6/2010 "One truth leads to another" ~Rene Remington
RENE REMINGTON The wind blew the words through my mind like the heart vibrates outside of time." ~ Rene Remington
RENE REMINGTON "Forgiveness is the way Home" ~ Rene Remington
RENE REMINGTON "Trust your heart. It knows the way"~ Rene Remington
RENE REMINGTON "Love is an energy field that encompasses us regardless of where we are, who were with." ~ Rene Remi...
RENE REMINGTON Full Mooon September 2010 "Spirit Dance with me Spirit Dance through me Spirit Dance in me Spirit Da...
RENE REMINGTON Indiana corn fields stand tall in August while Kansas wheat sways in the breeze." ~ Rene Remington
RENE REMINGTON When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.
RENE REDZEPI Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the ...
RENE MAGRITTE We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world
RENE MAGRITTE I had her this summer. I think she's dynamite.
RENE PORTLAND Oh, it's real. They're so blessed. I wish them all the love in the world.
RENE RUSSO I wasn't going to say this, but I was just listening to Rosie O'Donnell and I have to tell you, I wa...
RENE RUSSO He (Eastwood) was so wonderful ...
RENE RUSSO Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
RENE DUBOS It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.
RENE COTY A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
RENE CHAR I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.
RENE AUBERJONOIS I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people...
RENE AUBERJONOIS How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?
RENE AUBERJONOIS For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctiv...
RENE AUBERJONOIS At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, ...
RENE AUBERJONOIS And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends ...
RENE AUBERJONOIS And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor...
RENE AUBERJONOIS The truth is the worlds of STAR TREK that we inhabited were so far apart.
RENE AUBERJONOIS Ich würde niemandem raten die Luft anzuhalten ... Abgesehen von der Filmfrage, denke...
RENE AUBERJONOIS