Quote #8
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
More from Rene Descartes
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
- Variants: Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that …
- Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
- Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardes…
- The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.
- Me tenant comme je suis, un pied dans un pays et l'autre en un autre, je trouve ma condition tres heureuse, en ce qu'elle est libre.
- The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult d…