I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESBut 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.
RENE DESCARTESThe will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESIf 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.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTESWhen it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESMind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
RENE DESCARTESLet 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.
RENE DESCARTESMasked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTESThe first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESThe 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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