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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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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 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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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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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