Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESWhen 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…
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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So 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.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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