I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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