Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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 will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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