That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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If 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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To live well is to live concealed.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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