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

—Rene Descartes

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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

—Rene Descartes

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

—Rene Descartes

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

—Rene Descartes

I think; therefore I am.

—Rene Descartes

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

—Rene Descartes

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In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

—Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

—Paul Valéry

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

—Michel de Montaigne

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