In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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He who hid well, lived well.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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