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 DESCARTESI 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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach 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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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