Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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