Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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But 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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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Masked, I advance.
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