In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTESBad 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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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 best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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