The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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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