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
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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