Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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