But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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