It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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