I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESI suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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