It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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