In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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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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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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