To live well is to live concealed.
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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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 the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Masked, I advance.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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