All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESAll that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESBut what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTESOne should never judge anything unless it is known
RENE DESCARTESFor 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
RENE DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESCommon sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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