If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
RENE DESCARTESThe first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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