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…
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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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That 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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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