In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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