I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To live well is to live concealed.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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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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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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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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