All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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