I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESSo 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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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