I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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