To live well is to live concealed.
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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Masked, I advance.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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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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