The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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 will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Masked, I advance.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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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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