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#1

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

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#2

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#3

“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.”
― René Descartes

tags: doubt, truth

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#4

“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”
― Rene Descartes

tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science

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#5

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”
― Rene Descartes

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#6

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
― René Descartes

tags: philosophy, self-determination, self-discipline

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#7

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
― Descartes

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#8

“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”
― Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

tags: logic, rationality, truth, wisdom

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#9

“Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")”
― Rene Descartes (Principles of Philosophy)

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#10

“There is nothing more ancient than the truth.”
― Rene Descartes

tags: truth

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#11

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
― René Descartes, Discourse on Method

tags: difficulty, resolution

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#12

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”
― Rene Descartes

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#13

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems”
― René Descartes

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#14

“At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.”
― Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

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#15

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility

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#16

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

tags: class-struggle, war

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#17

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#18

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational

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#19

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism

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#20

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: growing-older, life-experience

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#21

“In love, one and one are one.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: love

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#22

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

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#23

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
― Spinoza

tags: philosophy

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#24

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

tags: philosophy

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#25

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
― Spinoza

tags: disputes

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#26

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
― Baruch Spinoza

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#27

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
― Baruch Spinoza

tags: philosophy, science

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#28

“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.”
― Baruch Spinoza

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#29

“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”
― Baruch Spinoza

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#30

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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