Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESFor 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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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