It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESWhen it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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 think; therefore I am.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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