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.
RENE DESCARTESMasked, I advance.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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