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The greatest minds, as they a...

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

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The reading of all good books...

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

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Before examining this more ca...

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.

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Neither divine grace nor natu...

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.

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You just keep pushing. You ju...

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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Some years ago I was struck b...

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

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The only thing that I know, i...

The only thing that I know, is that I know nothing

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Omnia apud me mathematica fiu...

Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.

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He who hid well, lived well. ...

He who hid well, lived well.

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The chief cause of human erro...

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

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For I found myself embarrasse...

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 th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance

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I have concluded the evident ...

I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.

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I was convinced that our beli...

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.

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Reason is nothing without ima...

Reason is nothing without imagination.

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Mathematics is a more powerfu...

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

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Intuition is the undoubting c...

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.

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Doubt is the origin of wisdom...

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

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There is nothing more ancient...

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

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Every man is indeed bound to ...

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

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By 'God', I understand, a sub...

By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists.

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