Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESIt is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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