Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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