To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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I think; therefore I am.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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