Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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