It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESThe 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 in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Masked, I advance.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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