But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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