That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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Masked, I advance.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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 think; therefore I am.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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 reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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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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