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.
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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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 live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Masked, I advance.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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