With me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESTo live well is to live concealed.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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 think; therefore I am.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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