For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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 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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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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