I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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