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.
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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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 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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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 know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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