To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESOne should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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