In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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 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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Masked, I advance.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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I 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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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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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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