Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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I think; therefore I am.
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