That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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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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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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 I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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