When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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