There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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