Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESFor 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
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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