All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESSo 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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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