It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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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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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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