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.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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