The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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