Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESFor 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
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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