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
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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Masked, I advance.
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