Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach 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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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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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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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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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