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.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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