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Explore the timeless wisdom of Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy. This collection features his most insightful quotes on thought, knowledge, doubt, and the human mind. Discover the ideas that shaped centuries of philosophical inquiry.

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00:00I think, therefore I am.
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00:07It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
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00:16Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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00:23The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
00:31Rene Descartes
00:34If you would be a real seeker of truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far
00:39as possible, all things.
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00:46Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it that
00:53those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else do not usually desire more of it than
00:58they already have.
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01:04To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
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01:13We cannot know our souls, for we know nothing about ourselves.
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01:33The mind is not at home, it is elsewhere.
01:36It is nowhere.
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01:43It is better to have attempted to learn and failed than never to have attempted to learn at all.
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01:52The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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02:01I have resolved to seek no other science than that which I could find within myself or in the great
02:07book of the world.
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02:13All that is not truth is falsehood.
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02:20We must believe that we are in the same world as those with whom we communicate.
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02:31Falsehood, on the contrary, is a privation of truth.
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02:39The only thing I know for sure is that I know nothing.
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02:47The passions are the winds which swell the sails of the soul.
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02:56There is nothing more readily and perfectly grasped than the absence of something.
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03:06Nature never gives us more than we can bear.
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03:12Research
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