That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESLet whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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