The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve 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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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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