Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I doubt, therefore 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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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