The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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