The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESI think; therefore I am.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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