In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
He who hid well, lived well.
Rene Descartes
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
Rene Descartes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Rene Descartes
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Rene Descartes
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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