I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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To live well is to live concealed.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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