It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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