It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESYou just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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