To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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 it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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 suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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