The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTES
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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