To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve 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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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