The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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I 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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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