The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTESSo far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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