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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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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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