It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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 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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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