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 DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Masked, I advance.
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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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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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