It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESI took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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I think; therefore I am.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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