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.
RENE DESCARTESIt is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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