I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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