The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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