Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESThe first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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