But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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