He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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But 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.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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