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
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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