I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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 had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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