To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Let 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.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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