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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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