It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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