I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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 only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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 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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I think; therefore I am.
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