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.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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