Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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’.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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