To live well is to live concealed.
RENE DESCARTESBut what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Common 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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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