Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESBut 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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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