Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. Rene Descartes More Quotes by Rene Descartes More Quotes From Rene Descartes One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. Rene Descartes The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries. Rene Descartes To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. Rene Descartes