At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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 a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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