The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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 best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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