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.
RENE DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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