One should never judge anything unless it is known
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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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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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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