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.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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