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.
RENE DESCARTESYou just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it 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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Masked, I advance.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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