I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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