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.
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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply 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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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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