Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESIt is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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 dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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 to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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