For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESTo think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESLet 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.
RENE DESCARTESMasked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTESI 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.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESAll that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESSo 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.
RENE DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESCommon sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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