Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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 greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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