In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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Masked, I advance.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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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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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 dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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