Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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 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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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