Conquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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