To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To live well is to live concealed.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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