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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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