Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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