Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESAll that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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