All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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 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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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