To live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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 only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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