I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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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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