In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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