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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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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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