Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESFor the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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I think; therefore I am.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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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 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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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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