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.
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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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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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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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