It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Masked, I advance.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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