Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
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- The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
- I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
- I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
- It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
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