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.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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