It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESThe 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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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