Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESFor 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
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve 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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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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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