I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Masked, I advance.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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