To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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