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…
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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But 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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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