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.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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He who hid well, lived well.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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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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 well is to live concealed.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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 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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