I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Masked, I advance.
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