I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESI desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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