To live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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