Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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