Voices Of Wisdom Rene Descartes Quotes PDF Download

This book is an anthology of quotes from Rene Descartes and selected facts about Rene Descartes."Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books." "Conquer yourself rather than the world." "Doubt is the origin of wisdom" "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems" "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." "He who hid well, lived well." "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am." "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt." "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." "There is nothing more ancient than the truth." "To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say." "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them." "Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true." "You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."