The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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 it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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