Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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 know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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