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.
RENE DESCARTESLet 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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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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 know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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