Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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