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
RENE DESCARTESOne should never judge anything unless it is known
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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