All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach 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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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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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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