Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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I think; therefore I am.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, 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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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