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 DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Masked, I advance.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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