Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESDivide 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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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 it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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