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
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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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