It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESIf 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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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