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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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