I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTESFor the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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