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.
RENE DESCARTESIt is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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