In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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