Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESThe 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.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESI 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.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESNothing is made from nothing.
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