Quote #31
In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.
More from Rene Descartes
- Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
- 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…
- It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- 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.
- De omnibus dubitandum
- If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
- Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.