I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach 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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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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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