That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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