I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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