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.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Masked, I advance.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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