Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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 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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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 will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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