He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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