Masked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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