At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
RENE DESCARTESI 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 the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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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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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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