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.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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 think; therefore I am.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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