I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESThe will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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