There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESMind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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