I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTESFor 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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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 best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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