To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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 destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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