One should never judge anything unless it is known
RENE DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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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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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 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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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