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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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