Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without 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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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