When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Masked, I advance.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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