To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESThe first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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