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of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
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RENE DAUMAL There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or anot... RENE DESCARTES You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just ke... RENE MCPHERSON 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 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 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 Mentoring is all about people -- it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it beco... RENE CARAYOL If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt... RENE DESCARTES 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 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 It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything. RENE COTY Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. RENE DESCARTES 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 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 When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eter... RENE YASENEK 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 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