He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESMind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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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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