Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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 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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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 not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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