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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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