But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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 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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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