In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
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