The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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 best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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