For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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