Let 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 DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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 know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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