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 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.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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He who hid well, lived well.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Masked, I advance.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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