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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More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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 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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