I think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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 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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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 without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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