Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESI took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I think; therefore I am.
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