I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Masked, I advance.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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