I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESCommon 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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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