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
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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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 best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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