When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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