The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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