One should never judge anything unless it is known
RENE DESCARTESTo 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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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