The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
RENE DESCARTESOne should never judge anything unless it is known
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Masked, I advance.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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