Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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