To live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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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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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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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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