Masked, I advance.
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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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 reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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