I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
RENE DESCARTESThe destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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