It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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