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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

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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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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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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 desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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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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Bad 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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply 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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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