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 DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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