Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESI desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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I think; therefore I am.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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