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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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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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