It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I think; therefore I am.
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