Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESYou just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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