When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESSo 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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To live well is to live concealed.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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 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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