I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTESNothing is made from nothing.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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 a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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