The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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