I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESLet 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.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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