Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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