Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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But 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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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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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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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I doubt, therefore 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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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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