The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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