Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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