I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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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.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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I think; therefore I am.
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