Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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