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.
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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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