For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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