The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESTo 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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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 not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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 greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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