When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESI took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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