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.
RENE DESCARTESThe will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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