For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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