Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESFor 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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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