Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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I think; therefore I am.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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