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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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