Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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 best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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