There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESCommon sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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