The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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 well is to live concealed.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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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 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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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