It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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