You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve 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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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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Let 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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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