It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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