I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESI took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESWhen 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…
RENE DESCARTESThe first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESTo live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESIt is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTESCommon sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESThe will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTESLet 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.
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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