Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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He who hid well, lived well.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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