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.
RENE DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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