The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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