Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESBut 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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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 will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Masked, I advance.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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