When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESThe will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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