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.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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