To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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