Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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