Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESCommon 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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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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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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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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I think; therefore I am.
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