With me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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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 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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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