He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Masked, I advance.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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