For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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 know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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