To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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