You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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 reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Masked, I advance.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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