Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Masked, I advance.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I think; therefore I am.
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