Rene Descartes

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. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ↗

— Rene Descartes

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I think; therefore I am. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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