I think; therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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