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
RENE DESCARTESIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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