He who hid well, lived well.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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Masked, I advance.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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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 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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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