All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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