When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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To live well is to live concealed.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Let 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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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