In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTES
For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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