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.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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