It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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