One should never judge anything unless it is known
RENE DESCARTESThe will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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