One should never judge anything unless it is known
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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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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