The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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 a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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