Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESBut 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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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I think; therefore I am.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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