You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
RENE DESCARTESBut what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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