Masked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTESIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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 will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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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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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 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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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