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 DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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