Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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