Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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