It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESTo think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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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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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 only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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