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.
RENE DESCARTESThe 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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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 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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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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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