Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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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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