When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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