When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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