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 DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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