You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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