The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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