In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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