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

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Attempt Close Deep Eyes Live Philosophy Truth
Nothing is made from nothing.
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Deep Nothing One Liner Philosophy
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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Affirm Deep Deny Doubt Imagination Myself Refuse Sense Thing Think Understand Will
To live well is to live concealed.
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Concealed Live Well
One should never judge anything unless it is known
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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Course Doubt Life Necessary Possible Seek Thing Truth
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Deep Myself Offend Offense One Liner Raise Soul Try
The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Destruction Edifice Foundation Necessary
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Argument Certain Evidence Mathematics Myself Special
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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Bring Deceive Deep Himself Myself Philosophy Think
Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Body Capable Deep Exist Philosophy Senses Tie
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Demolition Devote General Myself Opinion Reserve Sincere
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Difficulty Divide Necessary Resolve
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Action Attention People Think
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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