But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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 think; therefore I am.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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