Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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