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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The 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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Masked, I advance.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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