I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
RENE DESCARTESIt is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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