In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Masked, I advance.
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