Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best orde… - René Descartes

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Those who possess
the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to
make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what
they are proposing, even if they were to speak only Low Breton and had
never learned rhetoric.

René Descartes

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy · June 15, 1999 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650) was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. He is known for his influential arguments for substance dualism, where mind and body are considered to have distinct essences, one being characterized by thought, the other by spatial extension. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics." He is also known as Cartesius.

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Alternative Names: Descartes • Cartesius • Renatus Cartesius • Renė Dekartas

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Je sais combien nous sommes sujets à nous méprendre en ce qui nous touche, et combien aussi les jugements de nos amis nous doivent être suspects, lorsqu’ils sont en notre faveur.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

Whenever enyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

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