I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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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
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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