The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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