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.
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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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 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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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