In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESNothing is made from nothing.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open 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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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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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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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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