The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Masked, I advance.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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