It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESIt is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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 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 will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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