There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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 the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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