At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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 greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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