It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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