The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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 improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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