But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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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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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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 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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I think; therefore I am.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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 live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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