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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Alone Certain Deep Detach Exist Myself Philosophy Think Thought
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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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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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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Determine Follow Philosophy Power Probable True
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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Doubt Far Least Life Necessary Philosophy Possible Real Seek Thing Truth Yourself
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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