I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESAll that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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