I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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 in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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