There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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He who hid well, lived well.
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I think; therefore I am.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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To live well is to live concealed.
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