That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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 reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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