Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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