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 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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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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