Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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