Nothing is made from nothing.
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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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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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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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