Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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