Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESIf 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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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