In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESTo 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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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I think; therefore I am.
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