Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESWhen 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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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