The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESWhen 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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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