René Descartes
"I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments."
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"I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments."
René Descartes
"that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages"
René Descartes
"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."
René Descartes
"To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them."
René Descartes
"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."
René Descartes
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
René Descartes
"Let 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."
René Descartes
"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
René Descartes
"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."
René Descartes
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