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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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 had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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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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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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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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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Masked, I advance.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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