For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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