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…
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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 know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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 destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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I think; therefore I am.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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