When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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 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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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