Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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 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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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