Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTES
Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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