All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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