In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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