Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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I think; therefore I am.
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