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.
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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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