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
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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