To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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He who hid well, lived 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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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