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Descartes (Essential Thinkers)
Descartes (Essential Thinkers) | Rene Descartes
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Susanita
A Discourse on Method | Rene Descartes
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A quote I saved from Litsy a few years ago…

#wondrouswednesday

Ruthiella Nice! Reading is like time travel. 4mo
Susanita @Ruthiella Yes! Well put. 4mo
Cathythoughts Nice one ❤️ 4mo
Eggs Very nice👏🏻👏🏻 4mo
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charl08
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Reading good books is like having conversations with the finest minds of the past.

Tanisha_A ❤️ 4y
charl08 @Tanisha_A I don't know who does this twitter feed, but I wish I could buy them a coffee for the amount of times they make me smile. 4y
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Ddzmini
Descartes | Rene Descartes
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He forgot current authors 👀😳📚🥰

meghathecloud 😂he did indeed. 4y
Leniverse Or did he? Maybe he didn't read contemporary authors! I'm curious about his reading habits now. 4y
Ddzmini @Leniverse he could only read up to what he had available and what‘s classics to us may have been non-classics to him because they where written in his time ??? 4y
Leniverse Yes, of course. Which means that he is also discounting himself as irrelevant. Or at least as someone who had yet to become relevant. (Although the quote might have been taken out of context.) 4y
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LowCountryKnight
A Discourse on Method | Rene Descartes

Words have different sources. The discipine of logic manages to bring mental activity to something that exists only in a highly artful reality. Facts can be generated which gives discourse robustness. There is also a kind of mental activity that brings a organic formulaicness to things which makes words the same thing as the abstracted order. We can integrate this with other techniques which makes it philosophical. Or with discipline mathematical.

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BronteButty
A Discourse on Method | Rene Descartes

It isn‘t enough to have a good mind; what matters most is using it well..the greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices..

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Brian_L
A Discourse on Method | Rene Descartes

"That to read good books is like holding a conversation with the most eminent minds of past centuries and, moreover, a studied conversation in which these authors reveal to us the best of their thoughts."- René Descartes