Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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