That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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