I think; therefore I am.
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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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So 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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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