To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESLet whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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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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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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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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