That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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