It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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