The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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