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…
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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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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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