I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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