Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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