All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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 not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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 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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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