One should never judge anything unless it is known
RENE DESCARTESMind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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I think; therefore I am.
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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 best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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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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