Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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He who hid well, lived well.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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