When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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