It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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