It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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