That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Masked, I advance.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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 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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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