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.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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