The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESFor the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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