Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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