But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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