The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESFor the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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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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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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