In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESMasked, I advance.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve 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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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.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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