Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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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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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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