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.
RENE DESCARTESFor the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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