Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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