Except 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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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I 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.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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