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…
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 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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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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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