Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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