The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESBut 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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Common 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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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