At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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 greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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