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.
RENE DESCARTESTo think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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 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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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