In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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