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Biography - René Descartes:

French philosopher, mathematician and scientist.
Born: 1596 - Died: 1650
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.


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French
C'est proprement avoir les yeux fermés, sans tâcher jamais de les ouvrir, que de vivre sans philosopher.

German
Nun heißt das aber wahrhaft seine Augen geschlossen halten, ohne daran zu denken, sie zu öffnen, wenn man ohne zu philosophieren zu leben versucht.




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Have courage to use your own reason!

Dare to be wise, begin!

Philosophy is the culture of the soul.

Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.

But, what good is all of this light when people either have no eyes or deliberately shut those they have?

A blind man is, he who shuts the eye of the mind.




Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.





"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."











Quotes for: philosophy


Quotes

Quotes about philosophy:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.






Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.











Quotes

René Descartes also said...


I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.





Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.





It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.





The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.





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.





I think, therefore I am.












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