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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“Because reason… is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us…”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Source: Discourse on Method

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“He who hid well, lived well.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“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”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”

René Descartes book Meditations on First Philosophy

Variant: ... it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.
Source: Meditations on First Philosophy

“Masked, I advance.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Source: The Principles of Philosophy

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist