That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESThe 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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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