Masked, I advance.
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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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