At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
RENE DESCARTESIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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