Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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