The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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