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.
RENE DESCARTESCommon 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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Masked, I advance.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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