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 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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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 improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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