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
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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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