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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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