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.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Masked, I advance.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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