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RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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 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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