It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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Masked, I advance.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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