Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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 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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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