Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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