That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Masked, I advance.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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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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