The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESCommon 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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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