Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Masked, I advance.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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