For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
RENE DESCARTESAll that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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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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