The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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