At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Masked, I advance.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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