I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTESAm 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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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