To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTES
I 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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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