I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESI desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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 well is to live concealed.
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