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.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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