Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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