I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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