Nothing is made from nothing.
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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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