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.
RENE DESCARTESWhen 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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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