Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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 improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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