Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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