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 DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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