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.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Masked, I advance.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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