It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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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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