The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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But 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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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