For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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 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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